Draft genome sequence of a hot spring bacterial isolate Brevibacillus borstelensis Gp-1 with potential extracellular lipase activity

Our study is aimed to determine the draft genome of a novel strain of Brevibacillus borstelensis GP-1, a potential extracellular lipase producer, isolated from Ganeshpuri hot water springs (19.45 N, 72.79 E), from Maharashtra, India. It is a Gram-positive, long rod-shaped cell, with a central spore, gives fluorescent orange halos on Rhodamine B agar plates. Whole-genome sequence analysis using Illumina platform revealed that it is a novel strain with the closest relative being Brevibacillus borstelensis cifa_chp40. Whole-genome sequence assembly was deposited in GenBank under sequence read archive accession number PRJNA632691. Here is reported the draft genome sequence of Brevibacillus borstelensis GP-1 with 5.321 Mb of chromosomal content, with 51.50% GC content, without any extrachromosomal elements.