stenotrophomonas sp . stain sam8 is a gram - negative obligate aerobe that is rod shaped and motile with a few polar flagella . the isolate is an environmental bacterium found in aqueous habitats , including plant rhizospheres , animals , foods , and water sources . in addition , the isolate is an increasingly relevant human opportunistic pathogen that is involved in infections at hospitals and in patients with cystic fibrosis , .the isolate is major opportunistic waterborne pathogens causing hospital - acquired infections . genomic dna was extracted from pure culture of bacterial strain and subsequently sequenced using roche 454 gs ( flx titanium ) pyrosequencing . all of the reads were assembled using gs de novo assembler version 2.8 ( 454 life science ) , which generated 529 contigs with n50 12,907  bp . the genome contains 58 trna genes and 6 rrna genes ( 5s23s16s ) predicted by the ncbi prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline ( pgap ) . a total of 3448 protein coding sequences in 355 subsystems were functionally annotated by rapid annotation using the subsystems technology ( rast )   server ( fig . the genome information displays several antibiotic resistance genes encoding methicillin , efflux pumps , quinolone , fosmidomycin and acriflavine resistance protein .there also exist in the genome multiple genes encoding chitinase , xylanase , esterase and lipase enzymes . overall , the strain demonstrates the potential for resistance to a wide range of antimicrobial and heavy metals . functional comparison of genome sequences in the rast server revealed the closest neighbors of stenotrophomonas maltophilia k279a ( score 513 ) followed by stenotrophomonas sp . ska14 ( score 513 ) , s. maltophilia r551 - 3 ( score 506 ) , s. maltophilia d457 ( score 339 ) and xanthomonas campestris pv . the analysis of the complete 16s rrna sequence in eztaxon server ( http://www.ezbiocloud.net/eztaxon ; 
 ) under default settings ( with matches only against cultured strains ) identified s. maltophilia . overall , the various in silico results confirmed that the present environmental isolate is a member of the genus stenotrophomonas , though further characterization work is required to determine its species . the stenotrophomonas sp . sam8 whole genome shotgun project has been deposited in ddbj / embl / genbank under the accession no ldav00000000 . the authors declare that there is no conflict of interests on the work published in this paper .
we report draft genome sequence of stenotrophomonas sp . 
 strain sam8 , isolated from environmental water . 
 the draft genome size is 3,665,538  bp with a g  +  c content of 67.2% and contains 6 rrna sequence ( single copies of 5s , 16s & 23s rrna ) . 
 the genome sequence can be accessed at ddbj / embl / genbank under the accession no . 
 ldav00000000 .