Towards population-scale long-read sequencing

W De Coster, MH Weissensteiner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples …

Variant calling and benchmarking in an era of complete human genome sequences

ND Olson, J Wagner, N Dwarshuis, KH Miga… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic variant calling from DNA sequencing has enabled understanding of germline
variation in hundreds of thousands of humans. Sequencing technologies and variant-calling …

A draft human pangenome reference

WW Liao, M Asri, J Ebler, D Doerr, M Haukness… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Here the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium presents a first draft of the
human pangenome reference. The pangenome contains 47 phased, diploid assemblies …

Telomere-to-telomere assembly of diploid chromosomes with Verkko

M Rautiainen, S Nurk, BP Walenz, GA Logsdon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium recently assembled the first truly complete
sequence of a human genome. To resolve the most complex repeats, this project relied on …

The complete sequence of a human genome

S Nurk, S Koren, A Rhie, M Rautiainen, AV Bzikadze… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Since its initial release in 2000, the human reference genome has covered only the
euchromatic fraction of the genome, leaving important heterochromatic regions unfinished …

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 …

Haplotype-resolved assembly of diploid genomes without parental data

H Cheng, ED Jarvis, O Fedrigo, KP Koepfli… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Routine haplotype-resolved genome assembly from single samples remains an unresolved
problem. Here we describe an algorithm that combines PacBio HiFi reads and Hi-C …

Haplotype-resolved de novo assembly using phased assembly graphs with hifiasm

H Cheng, GT Concepcion, X Feng, H Zhang, H Li - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Haplotype-resolved de novo assembly is the ultimate solution to the study of sequence
variations in a genome. However, existing algorithms either collapse heterozygous alleles …

Haplotype-aware variant calling with PEPPER-Margin-DeepVariant enables high accuracy in nanopore long-reads

K Shafin, T Pesout, PC Chang, M Nattestad… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing has the potential to transform variant detection by reaching currently
difficult-to-map regions and routinely linking together adjacent variations to enable read …

Semi-automated assembly of high-quality diploid human reference genomes

ED Jarvis, G Formenti, A Rhie, A Guarracino, C Yang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The current human reference genome, GRCh38, represents over 20 years of effort to
generate a high-quality assembly, which has benefitted society,. However, it still has many …