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We've been exploring the new #T2T human genome assembly compared to previous versions (our news and views article is out today, link below). Some observations:
(1) Its pretty amazing what the human genome project was able to do in 2004: large-scale gene order is totally conserved
(1) Its pretty amazing what the human genome project was able to do in 2004: large-scale gene order is totally conserved
(2) Some of the chromosomes are nearly identical between the 2013 GRCh38 assembly and T2T. For example, here is a zoom in on Chr10 - just a few gaps in the pericentromere that were filled in with tandem repeats in T2T.
(3) But other chromosomes have been dramatically improved. For example, here are Chr9 and acrocentric Chr14.
Plot legend: sliding window proportion of sequence in genes (dark orange = exons) and repeats (light blue = #repeatMasker, dark blue = #trf); red segments = GRCh38 gaps.
Plot legend: sliding window proportion of sequence in genes (dark orange = exons) and repeats (light blue = #repeatMasker, dark blue = #trf); red segments = GRCh38 gaps.
