**5. Perspectives in aquatic genome research**

The availability of aquatic genome models in the past few years significantly expends the resources for biological and biomedical discovery. However, as detailed, problems persist in the current aquatic model draft assemblies (i.e., gaps in and between scaffold and repetitive sequence). Over the next few years, there should be a concerted effort to (a) *de novo* assemble genomes by combining standard Illumina library builds with new PacBio long-read sequenc‐ ing and (b) developing new assembly routines to resolve assembly errors and create chromo‐ some builds for each species.
