Publications by authors named "Alexander P Sweeten"

Article Synopsis
  • The study presents detailed genomes of six ape species, achieving high accuracy and complete sequencing of all their chromosomes.
  • It addresses complex genomic regions, leading to enhanced understanding of evolutionary relationships among these species.
  • The findings will serve as a crucial resource for future research on human evolution and our closest ape relatives.
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Motivation: A common method for analyzing genomic repeats is to produce a sequence similarity matrix visualized via a dot plot. Innovative approaches such as StainedGlass have improved upon this classic visualization by rendering dot plots as a heatmap of sequence identity, enabling researchers to better visualize multi-megabase tandem repeat arrays within centromeres and other heterochromatic regions of the genome. However, computing the similarity estimates for heatmaps requires high computational overhead and can suffer from decreasing accuracy.

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Motivation: A common method for analyzing genomic repeats is to produce a sequence similarity matrix visualized via a dot plot. Innovative approaches such as StainedGlass have improved upon this classic visualization by rendering dot plots as a heatmap of sequence identity, enabling researchers to better visualize multi-megabase tandem repeat arrays within centromeres and other heterochromatic regions of the genome. However, computing the similarity estimates for heatmaps requires high computational overhead and can suffer from decreasing accuracy.

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