Finishing a complete giraffe genome from telomere to telomere with Verkko-Fillet
Juhyun Kim, Benjamin D. Rosen, Sarah E Fumagalli, Kristen L. Kuhn, Amy Long, Jeffrey J. Schoenebeck, Heather Schwartz, Lan Wu‐Cavener, Aleksey V. Zimin, Douglas R. Cavener, Timothy P. L. Smith, Adam M. Phillippy, Sergey Koren, Arang Rhie
The paper introduces Verkko-Fillet, a tool for refining genome assemblies, and applies it to produce a telomere-to-telomere giraffe genome.
Cell Genomics · Aug 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics