Best practices for variant calling in clinical sequencing

DC Koboldt - Genome Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled a dramatic expansion of clinical
genetic testing both for inherited conditions and diseases such as cancer. Accurate variant …

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 …

Structural variation in the sequencing era

SS Ho, AE Urban, RE Mills - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying structural variation (SV) is essential for genome interpretation but has been
historically difficult due to limitations inherent to available genome technologies. Detection …

A robust benchmark for detection of germline large deletions and insertions

JM Zook, NF Hansen, ND Olson, L Chapman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
New technologies and analysis methods are enabling genomic structural variants (SVs) to
be detected with ever-increasing accuracy, resolution and comprehensiveness. To help …

Coming of age: ten years of next-generation sequencing technologies

S Goodwin, JD McPherson, WR McCombie - Nature reviews genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Since the completion of the human genome project in 2003, extraordinary progress has
been made in genome sequencing technologies, which has led to a decreased cost per …

Piercing the dark matter: bioinformatics of long-range sequencing and mapping

FJ Sedlazeck, H Lee, CA Darby, MC Schatz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Several new genomics technologies have become available that offer long-read sequencing
or long-range mapping with higher throughput and higher resolution analysis than ever …

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 …

PacBio sequencing and its applications

A Rhoads, KF Au - Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Single-molecule, real-time sequencing developed by Pacific BioSciences offers longer read
lengths than the second-generation sequencing (SGS) technologies, making it well-suited …

Finding the genomic basis of local adaptation: pitfalls, practical solutions, and future directions

S Hoban, JL Kelley, KE Lotterhos… - The American …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Uncovering the genetic and evolutionary basis of local adaptation is a major focus of
evolutionary biology. The recent development of cost-effective methods for obtaining high …

An open resource for accurately benchmarking small variant and reference calls

JM Zook, J McDaniel, ND Olson, J Wagner… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Benchmark small variant calls are required for developing, optimizing and assessing the
performance of sequencing and bioinformatics methods. Here, as part of the Genome in a …