Robert M. Davies

Taming the reference genome jungle: the refget sequence collection standard

The paper introduces a standard for unambiguously representing, retrieving, and comparing reference genomes and transcriptomes, revealing inconsistencies across 60 human and 36 mouse references.

Refget: standardised access to reference sequences

The paper introduces refget, an API for standardized access to reference sequences using identifiers derived from the sequences themselves.

HTSlib - C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data

HTSlib provides a C library for efficient programmatic access to high-throughput sequencing data formats, with performance improvements and new features.