Telomere-to-telomere assemblies of cattle and sheep Y-chromosomes uncover divergent structure and gene content

TA Olagunju, BD Rosen, HL Neibergs… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Reference genomes of cattle and sheep have lacked contiguous assemblies of the sex-
determining Y chromosome. Here, we assemble complete and gapless telomere to telomere …

A genome assembly and transcriptome atlas of the inbred Babraham pig to illuminate porcine immunogenetic variation

JC Schwartz, CP Farrell, G Freimanis, AK Sewell… - Immunogenetics, 2024 - Springer
The inbred Babraham pig serves as a valuable biomedical model for research due to its
high level of homozygosity, including in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) loci and …

Verkko2: Integrating proximity ligation data with long-read De Bruijn graphs for efficient telomere-to-telomere genome assembly, phasing, and scaffolding

D Antipov, M Rautiainen, S Nurk, BP Walenz, SJ Solar… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Abstract The Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium recently finished the first truly complete
sequence of a human genome. To resolve the most complex repeats, this project relied on …

TRACKing Tandem Repeats: a customizable pipeline for identification and cross-species comparisons

C de Lima Adam, JL Rocha, PH Sudmant, R Rohlfs - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
TRACK is a user-friendly command-line pipeline designed to consolidate the discovery and
comparison of tandem repeats (TRs) across species. TRACK facilitates the cataloging and …