David R. Rank

This study examines antero-posterior patterning in brittle stars to understand axial homologies in echinoderms and their evolution.

The paper investigates molecular patterning in sea stars to determine if their body plan retains similarities with deuterostomes, finding no ectodermal territory expressing bilaterian trunk genetic programs.

Trio-binned PacBio HiFi reads plus a 3.6 M-variant recombination map give phase-resolved assemblies of octoploid strawberry 'Royal Royce' and FaRR1, a 786.5 Mb haploid reference with 28 pseudomolecules.

The paper presents a phased diploid assembly of the Cascade hop genome, revealing patterns of selection and haplotype variation, and identifies a homolog of CBDAS.

The paper provides highly accurate long-read HiFi sequencing datasets for five complex genomes to evaluate and develop bioinformatic tools.

This paper develops a long-read sequencing protocol to improve variant detection and genome assembly in a human genome, achieving high accuracy and contiguity.

The paper improves the maize reference genome using single molecule technologies, resulting in longer contigs and better annotation of repetitive elements and genes.

This paper introduces FALCON and FALCON-Unzip algorithms to assemble diploid genomes from SMRT sequencing data, demonstrating improved contiguity and phasing compared to short-read methods.