Choose your reference wisely
October 13, 2025
In honor of ASHG week, see “Choose your human genome reference wisely”(no paywall), in which Vivien Marx interviewed me on the state of the human reference genome. Vivien is always fun to chat with and I was in a slightly opinionated mood from the start — “The idea of a single reference genome is outdated,” says NIH researcher Adam Phillippy. Some of my other quotes follow with a little added context.