Alexander Ben Hamadou

1 Introduction Spiders are a hyperdiverse taxon with approx. 52,000 recognised species in 134 families and roughly 900 newly described species every year (Gloor et al. 2024). They have colonised terrestrial habitats on all continents except Antarctica and are one of the most common and abundant predators worldwide (Foelix 2011).

Abstract Background: The time required for sequencing and de novo assembly of genomes is highly dependent on the interaction between laboratory work, sequencing capacity, and the bioinformatics workflow. As a result, genome projects are often not only limited by financial, computational and sequencing platform resources, but also delayed by second party sequencing service providers.