A guide for the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed disease: beyond the exome

S Marwaha, JW Knowles, EA Ashley - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Rare diseases affect 30 million people in the USA and more than 300–400 million
worldwide, often causing chronic illness, disability, and premature death. Traditional …

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 …

Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

A Rhie, SA McCarthy, O Fedrigo, J Damas, G Formenti… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
High-quality and complete reference genome assemblies are fundamental for the
application of genomics to biology, disease, and biodiversity conservation. However, such …

Semi-automated assembly of high-quality diploid human reference genomes

ED Jarvis, G Formenti, A Rhie, A Guarracino, C Yang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The current human reference genome, GRCh38, represents over 20 years of effort to
generate a high-quality assembly, which has benefitted society,. However, it still has many …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] A review of computational tools for generating metagenome-assembled genomes from metagenomic sequencing data

C Yang, D Chowdhury, Z Zhang, WK Cheung… - Computational and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metagenomic sequencing provides a culture-independent avenue to investigate the
complex microbial communities by constructing metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome

F Dubois, N Sidiropoulos, J Weischenfeldt… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Structural variations (SVs) affect more of the cancer genome than any other type of somatic
genetic alteration but difficulties in detecting and interpreting them have limited our …

Genomic variant benchmark: if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it

S Majidian, DP Agustinho, CS Chin, FJ Sedlazeck… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Genomic benchmark datasets are essential to driving the field of genomics and
bioinformatics. They provide a snapshot of the performances of sequencing technologies …

Seagrass genomes reveal ancient polyploidy and adaptations to the marine environment

X Ma, S Vanneste, J Chang, L Ambrosino, K Barry… - Nature plants, 2024 - nature.com
We present chromosome-level genome assemblies from representative species of three
independently evolved seagrass lineages: Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa …

Candida albicans selection for human commensalism results in substantial within-host diversity without decreasing fitness for invasive disease

FM Anderson, ND Visser, KR Amses… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Candida albicans is a frequent colonizer of human mucosal surfaces as well as an
opportunistic pathogen. C. albicans is remarkably versatile in its ability to colonize diverse …