Christopher Dunn

TL;DR: The open-source FALCON and FALcon-Unzip algorithms are introduced to assemble long-read sequencing data into highly accurate, contiguous, and correctly phased diploid genomes.

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: The genome assembly that results from using the long-read data provides a more complete picture of gene content, structural variation, and repeat biology, improving population genetic and evolutionary inferences.

TL;DR: The FALCON-based assemblies were substantially more contiguous and complete than alternate short or long-read approaches, and enabled the study of haplotype structures and heterozygosities between the homologous chromosomes, including identifying widespread heterozygous structural variations within the coding sequences.