Zemin Ning

The paper generates and analyzes genome assemblies for 24 Antarctic notothenioid fish species to study cold adaptations, identifying genomic changes related to antifreeze proteins and haemoglobin loss.

This paper introduces Asset, a tool to evaluate genome assemblies using long-range data, demonstrating its ability to detect structural misassemblies in human, goat, and fish genomes.

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.