Genome assembly algorithms articles within Nature

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    | Open Access

    Reference assemblies of great ape sex chromosomes show that Y chromosomes are more variable in size and sequence than X chromosomes and provide a resource for studies on human evolution and conservation genetics of non-human apes.

    • Kateryna D. Makova
    • , Brandon D. Pickett
    •  & Adam M. Phillippy
  • Article
    | Open Access

    A study reports data from the first phase of the Chinese Pangenome Consortium including 116 de novo assemblies from 58 core samples representing 36 minority Chinese ethnic groups.

    • Yang Gao
    • , Xiaofei Yang
    •  & Shuhua Xu
  • Article
    | Open Access

    An initial draft of the human pangenome is presented and made publicly available by the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium; the draft contains 94 de novo haplotype assemblies from 47 ancestrally diverse individuals.

    • Wen-Wei Liao
    • , Mobin Asri
    •  & Benedict Paten
  • Article
    | Open Access

    High-coverage, ultra-long-read nanopore sequencing is used to create a new human genome assembly that improves on the coverage and accuracy of the current reference (GRCh38) and includes the gap-free, telomere-to-telomere sequence of the X chromosome.

    • Karen H. Miga
    • , Sergey Koren
    •  & Adam M. Phillippy