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Additional Comments	This study, entitled “The genome of the coral model sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana (Aiptasia) strain F003”, reports a genome assembly of sea anemone. This assembly was used the ONT sequencing for assembling. The N50 of contigs and scaffolds are 76.47kb and 77.93kb. 29589 genes were identified. For the quality of this assembly, why did not use the hifiasm to assemble the sequences? These contigs are indeed fragment. Pure ONT sequencing will largely improve the extensibility of contigs. This fragmented contigs have large potential to be of high quality. In addition, the author may sequence the HIC data to cluster this assembly to be a chromosome genome. Annotation pipeline is also somewhat outdate. Braker2 or egapx(NCBI) are indeed recommended. How many BUSCO value for the protein set?
Any Additional Overall Comments to the Author	This study, entitled “The genome of the coral model sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana (Aiptasia) strain F003”, reports a genome assembly of sea anemone. This assembly was used the ONT sequencing for assembling. The N50 of contigs and scaffolds are 76.47kb and 77.93kb. 29589 genes were identified. For the quality of this assembly, why did not use the hifiasm to assemble the sequences? These contigs are indeed fragment. Pure ONT sequencing will largely improve the extensibility of contigs. This fragmented contigs have large potential to be of high quality. In addition, the author may sequence the HIC data to cluster this assembly to be a chromosome genome. Annotation pipeline is also somewhat outdate. Braker2 or egapx(NCBI) are indeed recommended. How many BUSCO value for the protein set?
Recommendation	Major Revision