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  • Kolmogorov, Mikhail; Billingsley, Kimberley J; Mastoras, Mira; Meredith, Melissa; Monlong, Jean; Lorig-Roach, Ryan; Asri, Mobin; Alvarez Jerez, Pilar; Malik, Laksh; Dewan, Ramita; Reed, Xylena; Genner, Rylee M; Daida, Kensuke; Behera, Sairam; Shafin, Kishwar; Pesout, Trevor; Prabakaran, Jeshuwin; Carnevali, Paolo; Yang, Jianzhi; Rhie, Arang; Scholz, Sonja W; Traynor, Bryan J; Miga, Karen H; Jain, Miten; Timp, Winston; Phillippy, Adam M; Chaisson, Mark; Sedlazeck, Fritz J; Blauwendraat, Cornelis; Paten, Benedict

    Nature methods, 10/2023, Volume: 20, Issue: 10
    Journal Article

    Long-read sequencing technologies substantially overcome the limitations of short-reads but have not been considered as a feasible replacement for population-scale projects, being a combination of too expensive, not scalable enough or too error-prone. Here we develop an efficient and scalable wet lab and computational protocol, Napu, for Oxford Nanopore Technologies long-read sequencing that seeks to address those limitations. We applied our protocol to cell lines and brain tissue samples as part of a pilot project for the National Institutes of Health Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias. Using a single PromethION flow cell, we can detect single nucleotide polymorphisms with F1-score comparable to Illumina short-read sequencing. Small indel calling remains difficult within homopolymers and tandem repeats, but achieves good concordance to Illumina indel calls elsewhere. Further, we can discover structural variants with F1-score on par with state-of-the-art de novo assembly methods. Our protocol phases small and structural variants at megabase scales and produces highly accurate, haplotype-specific methylation calls.