Brett T. Hannigan

TL;DR: The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) as mentioned in this paper is an international effort to generate high quality, complete reference genomes for all of the roughly 70,000 extant vertebrate species and to help to enable a new era of discovery across the life sciences.

TL;DR: The Vertebrate Genomes Project is embarked on, an effort to generate high-quality, complete reference genomes for all ~70,000 extant vertebrate species and help enable a new era of discovery across the life sciences.

TL;DR: A set of PacBio reads is leveraged to develop guidelines for sequencing and assembly of complex plant genomes in order to allocate finite resources using maize as an example and shows high-quality optical maps can dramatically improve contiguity in even the most fragmented base assembly.

TL;DR: This study generated eight independent assemblies for the complex genome of the maize inbred line NC358 using PacBio datasets ranging from 20-75x genomic depth and N50 read lengths of 11-21 kb, and distinguished sequence-quality thresholds were observed for complete assembly of genes, transposable elements, and highly repetitive genomic features.

TL;DR: This research demonstrates that the FALCON-Unzip algorithm can be used to create long and accurate haplotypes for humans and identifies problematic regions that could benefit in future improvement.