Pan-genomics in the human genome era

RM Sherman, SL Salzberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Since the early days of the genome era, the scientific community has relied on a single
'reference'genome for each species, which is used as the basis for a wide range of genetic …

Pangenome graphs

JM Eizenga, AM Novak, JA Sibbesen… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Low-cost whole-genome assembly has enabled the collection of haplotype-resolved
pangenomes for numerous organisms. In turn, this technological change is encouraging the …

Variation graph toolkit improves read mapping by representing genetic variation in the reference

E Garrison, J Sirén, AM Novak, G Hickey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Reference genomes guide our interpretation of DNA sequence data. However, conventional
linear references represent only one version of each locus, ignoring variation in the …

Evaluation of GRCh38 and de novo haploid genome assemblies demonstrates the enduring quality of the reference assembly

VA Schneider, T Graves-Lindsay, K Howe… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
The human reference genome assembly plays a central role in nearly all aspects of today's
basic and clinical research. GRCh38 is the first coordinate-changing assembly update since …

Genome graphs and the evolution of genome inference

B Paten, AM Novak, JM Eizenga, E Garrison - Genome research, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
The human reference genome is part of the foundation of modern human biology and a
monumental scientific achievement. However, because it excludes a great deal of common …

Fast and accurate genomic analyses using genome graphs

G Rakocevic, V Semenyuk, WP Lee, J Spencer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The human reference genome serves as the foundation for genomics by providing a scaffold
for alignment of sequencing reads, but currently only reflects a single consensus haplotype …

[HTML][HTML] Wheeler graphs: A framework for BWT-based data structures

T Gagie, G Manzini, J Sirén - Theoretical computer science, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The famous Burrows–Wheeler Transform (BWT) was originally defined for a single
string but variations have been developed for sets of strings, labeled trees, de Bruijn graphs …

Computational graph pangenomics: a tutorial on data structures and their applications

JA Baaijens, P Bonizzoni, C Boucher… - Natural Computing, 2022 - Springer
Computational pangenomics is an emerging research field that is changing the way
computer scientists are facing challenges in biological sequence analysis. In past decades …

Exploring pan-genomes: an overview of resources and tools for unraveling structure, function, and evolution of crop genes and genomes

S Naithani, CH Deng, SK Sahu, P Jaiswal - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The availability of multiple sequenced genomes from a single species made it possible to
explore intra-and inter-specific genomic comparisons at higher resolution and build clade …

Haplotype-aware graph indexes

J Sirén, E Garrison, AM Novak, B Paten… - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The variation graph toolkit (VG) represents genetic variation as a graph. Although
each path in the graph is a potential haplotype, most paths are non-biological, unlikely …