Nature Communications (May 2022)

Structural variant-based pangenome construction has low sensitivity to variability of haplotype-resolved bovine assemblies

  • Alexander S. Leonard,
  • Danang Crysnanto,
  • Zih-Hua Fang,
  • Michael P. Heaton,
  • Brian L. Vander Ley,
  • Carolina Herrera,
  • Heinrich Bollwein,
  • Derek M. Bickhart,
  • Kristen L. Kuhn,
  • Timothy P. L. Smith,
  • Benjamin D. Rosen,
  • Hubert Pausch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30680-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Pangenomes have a number of advantages over linear reference assemblies. Here the authors use bovine haplotype-resolved assemblies to show that structural variant-based pangenomes are consistent regardless of sequence platform, assembler, or coverage, suggesting that rigid protocols may not be required.