Long-read human genome sequencing and its applications

GA Logsdon, MR Vollger, EE Eichler - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, long-read, single-molecule DNA sequencing technologies have
emerged as powerful players in genomics. With the ability to generate reads tens to …

Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation

P Ebert, PA Audano, Q Zhu, B Rodriguez-Martin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The characterization of the full spectrum of genetic variation is critical to
understanding human health and disease. Recent technological advances have made it …

Pangenome-based genome inference allows efficient and accurate genotyping across a wide spectrum of variant classes

J Ebler, P Ebert, WE Clarke, T Rausch, PA Audano… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Typical genotyping workflows map reads to a reference genome before identifying genetic
variants. Generating such alignments introduces reference biases and comes with …

Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies

A Rhie, BP Walenz, S Koren, AM Phillippy - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Recent long-read assemblies often exceed the quality and completeness of available
reference genomes, making validation challenging. Here we present Merqury, a novel tool …

The structure, function and evolution of a complete human chromosome 8

GA Logsdon, MR Vollger, PH Hsieh, Y Mao… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The complete assembly of each human chromosome is essential for understanding human
biology and evolution,. Here we use complementary long-read sequencing technologies to …

HiCanu: accurate assembly of segmental duplications, satellites, and allelic variants from high-fidelity long reads

S Nurk, BP Walenz, A Rhie, MR Vollger… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Complete and accurate genome assemblies form the basis of most downstream genomic
analyses and are of critical importance. Recent genome assembly projects have relied on a …

Highly accurate long-read HiFi sequencing data for five complex genomes

T Hon, K Mars, G Young, YC Tsai, JW Karalius… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The PacBio® HiFi sequencing method yields highly accurate long-read sequencing
datasets with read lengths averaging 10–25 kb and accuracies greater than 99.5%. These …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking challenging small variants with linked and long reads

J Wagner, ND Olson, L Harris, Z Khan, J Farek… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Genome in a Bottle benchmarks are widely used to help validate clinical sequencing
pipelines and develop variant calling and sequencing methods. Here we use accurate …

Chromosome-scale, haplotype-resolved assembly of human genomes

S Garg, A Fungtammasan, A Carroll, M Chou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Haplotype-resolved or phased genome assembly provides a complete picture of genomes
and their complex genetic variations. However, current algorithms for phased assembly …

A high-quality bonobo genome refines the analysis of hominid evolution

Y Mao, CR Catacchio, LDW Hillier, D Porubsky, R Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The divergence of chimpanzee and bonobo provides one of the few examples of recent
hominid speciation,. Here we describe a fully annotated, high-quality bonobo genome …