Juwan Kim

The paper quantifies false duplications in genome assemblies of platypus, zebra finch, and Anna's hummingbird, showing they lead to overestimated gene family expansions.

The paper evaluates new vertebrate genome assemblies from the VGP against previous references, finding significant improvements in completeness and accuracy.

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.