volume 592 issue 7856 pages 737-746

Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

Arang Rhie 1
Shane A Mccarthy 2, 3
Joana Damas 5
Giulio Formenti 4, 6
Sergey Koren 1
Marcela Uliano-Silva 7, 8
William Chow 3
Arkarachai Fungtammasan 9
Juwan Kim 10
CHUL LEE 10
Byung June Ko 11
Mark Chaisson 12
Gregory L Gedman 6
Lindsey J Cantin 6
Leanne Haggerty 14
Iliana Bista 2, 3
Michelle Smith 3
Bettina Haase 4
Jacquelyn Mountcastle 4
Sylke Winkler 15, 16
Sadye Paez 4, 6
Jason Howard 17
Sonja C. Vernes 18, 19, 20
Tanya M Lama 21
Wesley C. Warren 23
Christopher N. Balakrishnan 24
David R. Burt 25
John George 26
Matthew T Biegler 6
David Iorns 27
Andrew P. Digby 28
Daryl Eason 28
Bruce Robertson 29
Taylor Edwards 30
Mark Wilkinson 31
George Turner 32
Axel Meyer 33
Andreas F. Kautt 33, 34
Paolo Franchini 33
H. W. DETRICH 35
Hannes Svardal 36, 37
Maximilian Wagner 38
Gavin J.P. Naylor 39
Martin Pippel 15, 40
Milan Malinsky 3, 41
Mark Mooney 42
Maria Simbirsky 9
Brett T Hannigan 9
Trevor Pesout 43
Marlys Houck 44
Ann Misuraca 44
David M. Rank 45
Richard Hall 45
Zev Kronenberg 45
Ivan Sović 45, 46
Christopher Dunn 45
Zemin Ning 3
Alex Hastie 47
Joyce Lee 47
Siddarth Selvaraj 48
Richard E. Green 43, 49
NICHOLAS PUTNAM 50
Ivo Glynne Gut 51, 52
Jay Ghurye 49, 53
Erik Garrison 43
Ying Sims 3
Joanna Collins 3
Sarah Pelan 3
James Torrance 3
Alan Tracey 3
Jonathan Wood 3
Robel E Dagnew 12
Dengfeng Guan 2, 54
Sarah E. London 55
D. F. Clayton 56
Claudio V. Mello 57
Samantha Friedrich 57
Peter V Lovell 57
Ekaterina Osipova 15, 40, 58
Farooq O Al Ajli 59, 60, 61
Simona Secomandi 62
Heebal Kim 10, 11, 63
Constantina Theofanopoulou 6
Michael Hiller 64, 65, 66
Yang Zhou 67
ROBERT S. HARRIS 68
Kateryna D. Makova 68, 69, 70
Paul Medvedev 69, 70, 71, 72
Jinna Hoffman 13
Patrick Masterson 13
Karen Clark 13
Fergal J Martin 14
Kevin Howe 14
Paul Flicek 14
Brian P. Walenz 1
Woori Kwak 63, 73
Hiram Clawson 43
Mark Diekhans 43
Luis Nassar 43
Benedict Paten 43
Robert H S Kraus 33, 74
Andrew Crawford 75
M. Gilbert 76, 77
Guojie Zhang 78, 79, 80, 81
B. Venkatesh 82
Robert W. Murphy 83
Klaus-Peter Koepfli 84
Beth Shapiro 85, 86
Warren D. Johnson 84, 87, 88
Federica Di Palma 89
Tomàs Marquès-Bonet 90, 91, 92, 93
Emma C. Teeling 94
Tandy Warnow 95
Jennifer Marshall Graves 96
Oliver A. Ryder 44, 97
David Haussler 43, 85
Stephen J. O'Brien 98, 99
Jonas Korlach 45
HARRIS A. LEWIN 5, 100, 101
Kerstin Howe 3
E. W. Myers 15, 40, 102
Richard L. Durbin 2, 3
Adam M. Phillippy 1
Erich D. Jarvis 4, 6, 86
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Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
9
 
DNAnexus Inc., Mountain View, USA
16
 
DRESDEN-concept Genome Center, Dresden, Germany
17
 
Novogene, Durham, USA
19
 
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
27
 
The Genetic Rescue Foundation, Wellington, New Zealand
28
 
Kākāpō Recovery, Department of Conservation, Invercargill, New Zealand
31
 
Department of life sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
40
 
Center for Systems Biology, Dresden, Germany
42
 
Tag.bio, San Francisco, USA
44
 
San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, USA
45
 
Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, USA
46
 
Digital BioLogic, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia
47
 
BioNano Genomics, San Diego, USA
48
 
Arima Genomics, San Diego, USA
49
 
Dovetail Genomics, Santa Cruz, USA
50
 
Independent Researcher, Santa Cruz, USA
61
 
Qatar Falcon Genome Project, Doha, Qatar
63
 
eGnome, Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea
64
 
LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Frankfurt, Germany
65
 
Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
67
 
BGI-shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
73
 
Hoonygen, Seoul, Korea
78
 
China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
81
 
Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
83
 
Centre for Biodiversity, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
84
 
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, National Zoological Park, Washington, USA
88
 
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, USA
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2021-04-28
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR18.288
CiteScore78.1
Impact factor48.5
ISSN00280836, 14764687
Multidisciplinary
Abstract
High-quality and complete reference genome assemblies are fundamental for the application of genomics to biology, disease, and biodiversity conservation. However, such assemblies are available for only a few non-microbial species1–4. To address this issue, the international Genome 10K (G10K) consortium5,6 has worked over a five-year period to evaluate and develop cost-effective methods for assembling highly accurate and nearly complete reference genomes. Here we present lessons learned from generating assemblies for 16 species that represent six major vertebrate lineages. We confirm that long-read sequencing technologies are essential for maximizing genome quality, and that unresolved complex repeats and haplotype heterozygosity are major sources of assembly error when not handled correctly. Our assemblies correct substantial errors, add missing sequence in some of the best historical reference genomes, and reveal biological discoveries. These include the identification of many false gene duplications, increases in gene sizes, chromosome rearrangements that are specific to lineages, a repeated independent chromosome breakpoint in bat genomes, and a canonical GC-rich pattern in protein-coding genes and their regulatory regions. Adopting these lessons, we have embarked on the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), 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. The Vertebrate Genome Project has used an optimized pipeline to generate high-quality genome assemblies for sixteen species (representing all major vertebrate classes), which have led to new biological insights.
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@article{2021_Rhie,
author = {Arang Rhie and Shane A Mccarthy and Olivier Fedrigo and Joana Damas and Giulio Formenti and Sergey Koren and Marcela Uliano-Silva and William Chow and Arkarachai Fungtammasan and Juwan Kim and CHUL LEE and Byung June Ko and Mark Chaisson and Gregory L Gedman and Lindsey J Cantin and Françoise Thibaud-Nissen and Leanne Haggerty and Iliana Bista and Michelle Smith and Bettina Haase and Jacquelyn Mountcastle and Sylke Winkler and Sadye Paez and Jason Howard and Sonja C. Vernes and Tanya M Lama and Frank Grützner and Wesley C. Warren and Christopher N. Balakrishnan and David R. Burt and John George and Matthew T Biegler and David Iorns and Andrew P. Digby and Daryl Eason and Bruce Robertson and Taylor Edwards and Mark Wilkinson and George Turner and Axel Meyer and Andreas F. Kautt and Paolo Franchini and H. W. DETRICH and Hannes Svardal and Maximilian Wagner and Gavin J.P. Naylor and Martin Pippel and Milan Malinsky and Mark Mooney and Maria Simbirsky and others},
title = {Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2021},
volume = {592},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {apr},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03451-0},
number = {7856},
pages = {737--746},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-021-03451-0}
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