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ReviewGenome research2025

A Hitchhiker's Guide to long-read genomic analysis.

Medhat Mahmoud, Daniel P Agustinho, Fritz J Sedlazeck

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Review in Genome research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. EstimatingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Scalable and comprehensive mosaic variant calling using DRAGEN.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  12. Assembly of a Full-Length Chimeric RNA Transcriptome.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  14. Constellation illuminates rare disease genetics.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Medhat Mahmoud *Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2553-4231
Daniel P Agustinho *Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2242-4798
Fritz J SedlazeckHuman Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA; fritz.sedlazeck@bcm.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6040-2691

Funding

Viral Diversity and Pathogenicity in Mucosal Respiratory and Gastrointestinal DiseaseU19AI144297 · NIAID · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI LORENZ, MICHAEL C · 2019 to 2024
$30.1M
Frequency of variants of unknown significance by ancestry groups in the All of Us Research Program cohortU01HG011758 · NHGRI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI RICHARD A GIBBS, JAMES R. LUPSKI · 2021 to 2026
$13.8M
Search for new genes involved in male infertility through novel approachesR01HD106056 · NICHD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Thomas Garcia · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
Identification of somatic/ mosaic SV and transposon activity and their crosstalk to DNA epigenetic ModificationsUG3NS132105 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SEDLAZECK, FRITZ J, WU, TAO · 2023 to 2024
$580k
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG011758NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI144297NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD106056NINDS NIH HHS UG3 NS132105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past decade, long-read sequencing has evolved into a pivotal technology for uncovering the hidden and complex regions of the genome. Significant cost efficiency, scalability, and accuracy advancements have driven this evolution. Concurrently, novel analytical methods have emerged to harness the full potential of long reads. These advancements have enabled milestones such as the first fully completed human genome, enhanced identification and understanding of complex genomic variants, and deeper insights into the interplay between epigenetics and genomic variation. This mini-review provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in long-read DNA sequencing analysis, encompassing reference-based and de novo assembly approaches. We explore the entire workflow, from initial data processing to variant calling and annotation, focusing on how these methods improve our ability to interpret a wide array of genomic variants. Additionally, we discuss the current challenges, limitations, and future directions in the field, offering a detailed examination of the state-of-the-art bioinformatics methods for long-read sequencing.

Indexed as

Genome, HumanGenomicsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, DNAComputational BiologyHumansMolecular Sequence Annotation

Identifiers

PMID40228901
PMCPMC12047252

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.