Genomic variant benchmark: if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it

S Majidian, DP Agustinho, CS Chin, FJ Sedlazeck… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Genomic benchmark datasets are essential to driving the field of genomics and
bioinformatics. They provide a snapshot of the performances of sequencing technologies …

Implementation of whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing into clinical cancer care

E Cuppen, O Elemento, R Rosenquist, S Nikic… - JCO Precision …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE The combination of whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing (WGTS) is
expected to transform diagnosis and treatment for patients with cancer. WGTS is a …

Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Calling structural variations (SVs) is technically challenging, but using long reads remains
the most accurate way to identify complex genomic alterations. Here we present Sniffles2 …

JBrowse 2: a modular genome browser with views of synteny and structural variation

C Diesh, GJ Stevens, P Xie, T De Jesus Martinez… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
We present JBrowse 2, a general-purpose genome annotation browser offering enhanced
visualization of complex structural variation and evolutionary relationships. It retains core …

Comprehensive structural variant detection: from mosaic to population-level

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Long-read Structural Variation (SV) calling remains a challenging but highly
accurate way to identify complex genomic rearrangements. Here, we present Sniffles2 …

GRIDSS2: comprehensive characterisation of somatic structural variation using single breakend variants and structural variant phasing

DL Cameron, J Baber, C Shale, JE Valle-Inclan… - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
GRIDSS2 is the first structural variant caller to explicitly report single breakends—
breakpoints in which only one side can be unambiguously determined. By treating single …

Precise characterization of somatic complex structural variations from tumor/control paired long-read sequencing data with nanomonsv

Y Shiraishi, J Koya, K Chiba, A Okada… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present our novel software, nanomonsv, for detecting somatic structural variations (SVs)
using tumor and matched control long-read sequencing data with a single-base resolution …

Unscrambling cancer genomes via integrated analysis of structural variation and copy number

C Shale, DL Cameron, J Baber, M Wong, MJ Cowley… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Complex somatic genomic rearrangements and copy number alterations are hallmarks of
nearly all cancers. We have developed an algorithm, LINX, to aid interpretation of structural …

Towards routine chromosome-scale haplotype-resolved reconstruction in cancer genomics

S Garg - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer genomes are highly complex and heterogeneous. The standard short-read
sequencing and analytical methods are unable to provide the complete and precise base …

Deciphering complex breakage-fusion-bridge genome rearrangements with Ambigram

C Li, L Chen, G Pan, W Zhang, SC Li - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) is a complex rearrangement that leads to tumor
malignancy. Existing models for detecting BFBs rely on the ideal BFB hypothesis, ruling out …