New whole-genome alignment tools are needed for tapping into plant diversity

B Song, ES Buckler, MC Stitzer - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
Genome alignment is one of the most foundational methods for genome sequence studies.
With rapid advances in sequencing and assembly technologies, these newly assembled …

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

A Rhie, S Nurk, M Cechova, SJ Hoyt, DJ Taylor… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble
because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and …

A survey of mapping algorithms in the long-reads era

K Sahlin, T Baudeau, B Cazaux, C Marchet - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
It has been over a decade since the first publication of a method dedicated entirely to
mapping long-reads. The distinctive characteristics of long reads resulted in methods …

Building pangenome graphs

E Garrison, A Guarracino, S Heumos, F Villani, Z Bao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pangenome graphs can represent all variation between multiple reference genomes, but
current approaches to build them exclude complex sequences or are based upon a single …

Long-read mapping to repetitive reference sequences using Winnowmap2

C Jain, A Rhie, NF Hansen, S Koren, AM Phillippy - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Approximately 5–10% of the human genome remains inaccessible due to the
presence of repetitive sequences such as segmental duplications and tandem repeat arrays …

A modern primer on processing in memory

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - … computing: from devices …, 2022 - Springer
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This
design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause …

Approaching complete genomes, transcriptomes and epi-omes with accurate long-read sequencing

S Kovaka, S Ou, KM Jenike, MC Schatz - Nature methods, 2023 - nature.com
The year 2022 will be remembered as the turning point for accurate long-read sequencing,
which now establishes the gold standard for speed and accuracy at competitive costs. We …

High-quality metagenome assembly from long accurate reads with metaMDBG

G Benoit, S Raguideau, R James, AM Phillippy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We introduce metaMDBG, a metagenomics assembler for PacBio HiFi reads. MetaMDBG
combines a de Bruijn graph assembly in a minimizer space with an iterative assembly over …

Recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes

A Guarracino, S Buonaiuto, LG de Lima, T Potapova… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The short arms of the human acrocentric chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22 (SAACs) share
large homologous regions, including ribosomal DNA repeats and extended segmental …

High-coverage nanopore sequencing of samples from the 1000 Genomes Project to build a comprehensive catalog of human genetic variation

JA Gustafson, SB Gibson, N Damaraju… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Fewer than half of individuals with a suspected Mendelian or monogenic condition receive a
precise molecular diagnosis after comprehensive clinical genetic testing. Improvements in …