V.harveyi is an important opportunistic pathogen of marine fish and invertebrates,which often causes serious diseases of mariculture animals and brings huge economic losses to the aquaculture industry.However,the virulence of V.harveyi isolated from different environments varies greatly.In the present study,the sequencing technology combining the second generation Illumina Hiseq platform and the third generation PacBio platform was used to sequence and analyze the genome of V.harveyi strain TS-628 isolated from the diseased Epinephelus awoara.The genome information of this strain was exploited to understand the virulence related genes of the pathogen,in order to provide data support for the subsequent research on the pathogenesis of V.harveyi and control of V.harveyi disease.The results revealed that the genome of V.harveyi strain TS-628 had two chromosomes and two plasmids.One of the plasmids was a newly discovered plasmid.The genome size of this strain was 6 151 198 bp,the GC content of the genome was 44.68%,the number of predicted genes were 5 658,the number of predicted virulence genes were 747.The 747 virulence genes were mainly related to bacterial adhesion,iron uptake and secretion systems.In addition,294 drug-resistant genes were found,reflecting that the V.harveyi strain TS-628 not only had the potential to encode multiple virulence factors,but also had the potential to resist multiple antibacterial agents.