Breakthrough algorithm enables partially phased, near telomere-to-telomere assembly using standard Oxford Nanopore Simplex reads

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  OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #Nanopore--A new paper, released this week on bioRxiv, introduces hifiasm-ONT, a breakthrough genome assembly algorithm that enables partially phased, near telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assemblies1, using Oxford Nanopore Simplex reads and standard sample prep. Developed by Haoyu Cheng, Han Qu, Heng Li, and Peter Park, with support from Oxford Nanopore's machine learning and applications teams, this major algorithmic innovation unlocks the length advantage of Oxford Nanopore'.