Closing Human Reference Genome Gaps: Identifying and Characterizing Gap-Closing Sequences

Despite continuous updates of the human reference genome, there are still hundreds of unresolved gaps which account for about 5% of the total sequence length. Given the availability of whole genome de novo assemblies, especially those derived from long-read sequencing data, gap-closing sequences can...

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Main Authors: Tingting Zhao, Zhongqu Duan, Georgi Z. Genchev, Hui Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2020-08-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
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Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.120.401280