Abstract
A Gram-positive, spore forming bacterium designated as strain CMU008 was isolated from a soil sample in Chiang Mai University campus, Chiang Mai, Thailand. This strain is able to precipitate calcium carbonate and promote growth of sunflower sprouts. The whole genome sequencing was done using Illumina MiSeq platform. The draft genome of strain CMU008 was 4,016,758 bp in length with 4,220 protein coding sequences and an average G + C content of 46.01 mol%. The ANIb values of strain CMU008 and the type strains of its closely related neighbors, Bacillus velezensis NRRL B-41580(T) and B. velezensis KCTC13012(T) were 98.52%. Phylogenomic tree also supports the assignment of strain CMU008 as B. velezensis. The genome sequence data of B. velezensis strain CMU008 provide insightful information for the taxonomic characterization and further biotechnological exploitation of this strain. The draft genome sequence data of B. velezensis strain CMU008 has been deposited in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under the accession number JAOSYX000000000.