Towards population-scale long-read sequencing

W De Coster, MH Weissensteiner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples …

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 draft human pangenome reference

WW Liao, M Asri, J Ebler, D Doerr, M Haukness… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Here the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium presents a first draft of the
human pangenome reference. The pangenome contains 47 phased, diploid assemblies …

The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank

BV Halldorsson, HP Eggertsson, KHS Moore… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Detailed knowledge of how diversity in the sequence of the human genome affects
phenotypic diversity depends on a comprehensive and reliable characterization of both …

High-coverage whole-genome sequencing of the expanded 1000 Genomes Project cohort including 602 trios

M Byrska-Bishop, US Evani, X Zhao, AO Basile… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) is the largest fully open resource of whole-
genome sequencing (WGS) data consented for public distribution without access or use …

Pangenomics enables genotyping of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes

J Sirén, J Monlong, X Chang, AM Novak, JM Eizenga… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Modern genomics depends on inexpensive short-read sequencing.
Sequenced reads up to a few hundred base pairs in length are computationally mapped to …

Pangenome graph construction from genome alignments with Minigraph-Cactus

G Hickey, J Monlong, J Ebler, AM Novak… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pangenome references address biases of reference genomes by storing a representative
set of diverse haplotypes and their alignment, usually as a graph. Alternate alleles …

Haplotype-resolved de novo assembly using phased assembly graphs with hifiasm

H Cheng, GT Concepcion, X Feng, H Zhang, H Li - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Haplotype-resolved de novo assembly is the ultimate solution to the study of sequence
variations in a genome. However, existing algorithms either collapse heterozygous alleles …

Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome

AM Wenger, P Peluso, WJ Rowell, PC Chang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The DNA sequencing technologies in use today produce either highly accurate short reads
or less-accurate long reads. We report the optimization of circular consensus sequencing …

A universal SNP and small-indel variant caller using deep neural networks

R Poplin, PC Chang, D Alexander, S Schwartz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite rapid advances in sequencing technologies, accurately calling genetic variants
present in an individual genome from billions of short, errorful sequence reads remains …