Towards precision medicine

EA Ashley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
There is great potential for genome sequencing to enhance patient care through improved
diagnostic sensitivity and more precise therapeutic targeting. To maximize this potential …

Harnessing the power of RADseq for ecological and evolutionary genomics

KR Andrews, JM Good, MR Miller, G Luikart… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
High-throughput techniques based on restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq)
are enabling the low-cost discovery and genotyping of thousands of genetic markers for any …

A complete reference genome improves analysis of human genetic variation

S Aganezov, SM Yan, DC Soto, M Kirsche, S Zarate… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Compared to its predecessors, the Telomere-to-Telomere CHM13 genome adds nearly 200
million base pairs of sequence, corrects thousands of structural errors, and unlocks the most …

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 …

Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes

MJP Chaisson, AD Sanders, X Zhao, A Malhotra… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The incomplete identification of structural variants (SVs) from whole-genome sequencing
data limits studies of human genetic diversity and disease association. Here, we apply a …

Assessing genome assembly quality using the LTR Assembly Index (LAI)

S Ou, J Chen, N Jiang - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Assembling a plant genome is challenging due to the abundance of repetitive sequences,
yet no standard is available to evaluate the assembly of repeat space. LTR retrotransposons …

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 …

Next-generation sequencing technologies

WR McCombie, JD McPherson… - Cold Spring …, 2019 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Although DNA and RNA sequencing has a history spanning five decades, large-scale
massively parallel sequencing, or next-generation sequencing (NGS), has only been …

Advancements in next-generation sequencing

SE Levy, RM Myers - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The term next-generation sequencing is almost a decade old, but it remains the colloquial
way to describe highly parallel or high-output sequencing methods that produce data at or …

DNA sequencing technologies: 2006–2016

ER Mardis - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Recent advances in the field of genomics have largely been due to the ability to sequence
DNA at increasing throughput and decreasing cost. DNA sequencing was first introduced in …