A complete and near-perfect rhesus macaque reference genome: lessons from subtelomeric repeats and sequencing bias
Shilong Zhang, Ning Xu, Yong Lu, Yanhong Nie, Zhengtong Li, Luciana de Gennaro, Alessandra La Torraca, Lianting Fu, Zhendong Zhang, Jieyi Chen, Kaiyue Ma, Xiangyu Yang, Juan Zhang, Matthew T. Schmitz, Francesca Antonacci, , Yafei Mao
The paper presents a high-accuracy T2T rhesus macaque genome assembly, identifies subtelomeric repeats as a challenge, and reveals new genomic features and functional elements in these regions.
Cell · Aug 1, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics