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 survey of algorithms for the detection of genomic structural variants from long-read sequencing data

MU Ahsan, Q Liu, JE Perdomo, L Fang, K Wang - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
As long-read sequencing technologies are becoming increasingly popular, a number of
methods have been developed for the discovery and analysis of structural variants (SVs) …

Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding

Y Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Bao, H Li, Y Lyu, Y Zan, Y Wu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Missing heritability in genome-wide association studies defines a major problem in genetic
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …

Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Calling structural variations (SVs) is technically challenging, but using long reads remains
the most accurate way to identify complex genomic alterations. Here we present Sniffles2 …

NanoPack2: population-scale evaluation of long-read sequencing data

W De Coster, R Rademakers - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increases in the cohort size in long-read sequencing projects necessitate more efficient
software for quality assessment and processing of sequencing data from Oxford Nanopore …

Characterization and visualization of tandem repeats at genome scale

E Dolzhenko, A English, H Dashnow… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tandem repeat (TR) variation is associated with gene expression changes and numerous
rare monogenic diseases. Although long-read sequencing provides accurate full-length …

Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice

OS Harringmeyer, HE Hoekstra - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosomal inversions are an important form of structural variation that can affect
recombination, chromosome structure and fitness. However, because inversions can be …

Curated variation benchmarks for challenging medically relevant autosomal genes

J Wagner, ND Olson, L Harris, J McDaniel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The repetitive nature and complexity of some medically relevant genes poses a challenge
for their accurate analysis in a clinical setting. The Genome in a Bottle Consortium has …

Genomics in the long-read sequencing era

EL van Dijk, D Naquin, K Gorrichon, Y Jaszczyszyn… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Long-read sequencing (LRS) technologies have provided extremely powerful tools to
explore genomes. While in the early years these methods suffered technical limitations, they …

Taming transposable elements in vertebrates: from epigenetic silencing to domestication

MV Almeida, G Vernaz, ALK Putman, EA Miska - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Transposable element (TE)-derived sequences are ubiquitous in most eukaryotic genomes
known to date. Because their expression and mobility can lead to genomic instability …