genome assembly
Tech-Boosted Genome Assembly Helps Resolve Closely Related Microbes in Metagenomic Sample
Led by researchers from the USDA and UCSD, the team assembled genomes with the help of PacBio's HiFi reads and Phase Genomics' Hi-C assays.
A gapless human Y chromosome assembly is in the works and should be available in the next several months, NHGRI's Adam Phillippy said at the meeting.
Speedy Long-Read Genome Assembly Enabled by Minimizer-Space Analysis
The minimizer-space de Bruijn graph approach could assemble a human genome in less than 10 minutes using eight cores and 10 gigabytes of random access memory.
Cultivated Cotton Genomes Reveal Crop Trait-Related Structural Variants
Researchers found nearly 450 agricultural trait-related structural variants in two new genome assemblies and resequencing data for 1,081 cotton accessions.
Many labs have yet to make the switch from the GRCh37 reference genome to GRCh38, and new data and another new genome assembly suggests the decision may be complex.