Whole-Genome Assembly Improved in Long-Read Sequencing
Previously updated in 2013, researchers behind the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium have now published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome. It will now replace the reference genome first drafted in 2000 under the original Human Genome Project. Zechen Chong, Ph.D. (left), and Robert Kimberly, M.D. (right)
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