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Now published in GigaScience with minor improvements: academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

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Preprint on "Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data": arxiv.org/abs/2507.03718
September 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Activity of most genes is controlled by multiple enhancers, but is there activation coordinated? We leveraged Nanopore to identify a specific set of elements that are simultaneously accessible on the same DNA molecules and are coordinated in their activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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If you want to check if a human gene has copy-number changes or lands in a complex region, try pangene.bioinweb.org. Recently updated with more and better assemblies.
April 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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June 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Improving gene isoform quantification with miniQuant www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/Augroup/mini... (no code, only executables, noncommercial license)
June 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Congrats to @dantipov.bsky.social et al. on the publication of Verkko2! The team put a ton of work into this making it the first assembler that deals with the complexity of human acrocentric chromosomes. Lots of interesting discoveries to come! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
June 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Now published! Note that since Vikram's original post (quoted here), he's made it easy to dynamically update a set of multi-MUMs (e.g. when more genomes are added to a pangenome) and to find multi-MUMs for huge collections like HPRCv2 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
June 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Our new contribution to the quest to find causal GWAS genes! Sam Ghatan from my lab at @nygenome.org led a systematic comparison of eQTLs and CRISPRi+scRNA-seq screens. TL;DR: they provide highly complementary insights, with ortogonal pros and cons. 🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Our featured article: DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease go.nature.com/3X14Ali #Review by Zachary D. Smith @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social, Sara Hetzel & Alexander Meissner @molgen.mpg.de
Free to read here: rdcu.be/dQEND
DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, Smith et al. describe DNA methylation landscapes that emerge over mammalian development and within key disease states, as well as how different methyltransferases interface w...
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December 13, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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A tool to dissect regulatory DNA in its endogenous context enables the identification of designed small edits (<10 bp) that fine-tune gene expression, with potential therapeutic implications #NBThighlight www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Rewriting regulatory DNA to dissect and reprogram gene expression
Martyn and Montgomery et al. present Variant-EFFECTS, a high-throughput technology developed to precisely measure the effects of CRISPR-mediated edits on gene expression. Variant-EFFECTS is reproducib...
www.cell.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Evolutionary divergence in CTCF-mediated chromatin topology drives transcriptional innovation in humans www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human vs macaque:
▶️2133 gained (2.7%), 2418 lost (3.1%) CTCF loops in B-cells
▶️5873 gained (7.3%), 6708 lost (8.3%) in neurons
▶️implications for ASD and immunity
March 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Interested in Comparative Genomics?
Join us to learn genome assemby&annotation, variant detection, and evolutionary analysis with lots of hands-on sessions! @nanoporetech.com @pacbio.bsky.social @sedlazeck.bsky.social
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March 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Newly published in Genetics:
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We ask what gene flow & introgression do to gene coexpression networks. The answer is: a lot.
March 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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our work on the molecular differences between transcription factor isoforms is out now in Molecular Cell!

key point: 2/3rds of TF isos differ in properties like DNA binding & transcriptional activity

many are "negative regulators" & misexpressed in cancer

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A new article from Laurel Hiatt and @hdashnow.bsky.social describing STRchive is now available at Genome Medicine. genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Check out the database resource, as STRchive "streamlines TR variant interpretation at disease-associated loci."
strchive.org
STRchive: a dynamic resource detailing population-level and locus-specific insights at tandem repeat disease loci - Genome Medicine
Approximately 8% of the human genome consists of repetitive elements called tandem repeats (TRs): short tandem repeats (STRs) of 1–6 bp motifs and variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) of 7 + bp moti...
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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OMAnnotator: a novel approach to building an annotated consensus genome sequence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/DessimozLab/...
March 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🧪 The MorPhIC Consortium is building a comprehensive catalog of human gene functions and their roles in disease using in vitro multicellular systems. Discover more about their ambitious goal and approach in @nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
MorPhiC Consortium: towards functional characterization of all human genes - Nature
This Perspective discusses strategies and challenges for the Molecular Phenotypes of Null Alleles in Cells (MorPhiC) Consortium as it aims to catalogue the molecular and cellular phenotypes associated...
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March 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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New preprint is out!
We investigate how well you can call variants directly from genome assemblies compared to traditional read-based variant calling.

Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Data & code: github.com/rrwick/Are-r...
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Are reads required? High-precision variant calling from bacterial genome assemblies
Accurate nucleotide variant calling is essential in microbial genomics, particularly for outbreak tracking and phylogenetics. This study evaluates variant calls derived from genome assemblies compared...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Accurate Somatic SV detection via sequence graph model-based local pan-genome optimization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.636543v1 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/Goatofmountain/TDScope
February 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Comparative population pangenomes reveal unexpected complexity and fitness effects of structural variants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637762v1 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/harvardinformatics/scrub-jay-genomics
February 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We're delighted to share our work on scrambling the human genome using prime editing, repetitive elements, and recombinases in @science.org , led by @jonaskoeppel.bsky.social , @f-raphael.bsky.social , with @proftomellis.bsky.social and George Church.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Randomizing the human genome by engineering recombination between repeat elements
We lack tools to edit DNA sequences at scales necessary to study 99% of the human genome that is noncoding. To address this gap, we applied CRISPR prime editing to insert recombination handles into re...
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January 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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This project stands together with work from @sudpinglay.bsky.social and @jshendure.bsky.social , who came up with an alternative method that includes a clever, single-cell sequencing strategy to read out the variants generated by scrambling.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Multiplex generation and single-cell analysis of structural variants in mammalian genomes
Studying the functional consequences of structural variants (SVs) in mammalian genomes is challenging because (i) SVs arise much less commonly than single-nucleotide variants or small indels and (ii) ...
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January 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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This is very interesting and highly relevant paper to clinical genetics and rare disease researchers. I wrote the accompanying News & Views piece. Free sharing link here: rdcu.be/d0VlK
November 20, 2024 at 11:11 PM