Robert S. Harris

Complete sequencing of ape genomes

The paper presents haplotype-resolved genomes of six ape species with high accuracy and provides comparative analyses to study evolutionary diversity and gene family evolution.

The Complete Sequence and Comparative Analysis of Ape Sex Chromosomes

The paper produces gapless assemblies of ape sex chromosomes for five great apes and a lesser ape, revealing divergence in Y chromosomes and evolutionary dynamics.

Distinct sequencing success at non-B-DNA motifs

This study examines how non-B DNA motifs affect sequencing error rates across three technologies and proposes a method to estimate false-positive SNVs.

The statistics of k-mers from a sequence undergoing a simple mutation process without spurious matches

The paper analyzes the statistical properties of k-mers under a mutation process and develops hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for mutation rates using k-mer counts and Jaccard similarity.

Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

The paper summarizes methods and lessons from assembling 16 vertebrate genomes, highlights the importance of long-read sequencing, and introduces the Vertebrate Genomes Project to generate complete reference genomes for all vertebrate species.

Retrovirus insertion site analysis of LGL leukemia patient genomes

The paper analyzes LGL leukemia patient genomes to detect retrovirus integration sites but finds no new retroviruses, instead identifying polymorphic HERV-K provirus sites more prevalent in LGL patients.

Long-read sequencing technology indicates genome-wide effects of non-B DNA on polymerization speed and error rate

The paper uses long-read sequencing to analyze how non-B DNA structures affect DNA polymerization speed and error rates across the human genome.

AllSome Sequence Bloom Trees

The paper introduces an improved Sequence Bloom Tree data structure that enhances query performance for RNA-seq databases.

Alignathon: A competitive assessment of whole genome alignment methods.

The paper organizes a competitive evaluation of whole genome alignment methods using simulated and real datasets, finding significant accuracy differences between tools and performance variations across evolutionary distances.