Forty years ago the advent of Sanger sequencing was revolutionary as it allowed complete
genome sequences to be deciphered for the first time. A second revolution came when next …

This review commemorates the 40th anniversary of DNA sequencing, a period in which we
have already witnessed multiple technological revolutions and a growth in scale from a few …

The task of eukaryotic genome annotation remains challenging. Only a few genomes could
serve as standards of annotation achieved through a tremendous investment of human …

Recent long-read assemblies often exceed the quality and completeness of available
reference genomes, making validation challenging. Here we present Merqury, a novel tool …

Background Major advances in selection progress for cattle have been made following the
introduction of genomic tools over the past 10–12 years. These tools depend upon the Bos …

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 …

Abstract The Ensembl project (https://www. ensembl. org) makes key genomic data sets
available to the entire scientific community without restrictions. Ensembl seeks to be a …

Abstract High-order three-dimensional (3D) interactions between more than two genomic
loci are common in human chromatin, but their role in gene regulation is unclear. Previous …

Construction of chromosome-level assembly is a vital step in achieving the goal of a
'Platinum'genome, but it remains a major challenge to assemble and anchor sequences to …

Background Recent developments in third-gen long read sequencing and diploid-aware
assemblers have resulted in the rapid release of numerous reference-quality assemblies for …