Sergey Nurk, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (alum)

Software

Verkko

Verkko is a hybrid genome assembly pipeline developed for telomere-to-telomere assembly of long accurate (e.g. PacBio HiFi) and ultra-long (e.g. Oxford Nanopore UL) reads. Verkko is Finnish for net, mesh and graph.

Canu

A single molecule sequence assembler for genomes large and small

Publications

see all 12 publications with Sergey Nurk

The variation and evolution of complete human centromeres

Nature, April 3, 2024

Logsdon GA, Rozanski AN, Ryabov F, Potapova T, Shepelev VA, Catacchio CR, Porubsky D, Mao Y, Yoo D, Rautiainen M, Koren S, Nurk S, Lucas JK, Hoekzema K, Munson KM, Gerton JL, Phillippy AM, Ventura M, Alexandrov IA, Eichler EE

The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes

bioRxiv, December 1, 2023

Makova KD, Pickett BD … Nurk S … Rhie A … Solar SJ … Sweeten A … Koren S … Phillippy AM

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

Nature, August 23, 2023

Rhie A, Nurk S … Koren S, Rautiainen M … Hansen NF … Mc Cartney AM … Walenz BP … Phillippy AM

A draft human pangenome reference

Nature, May 10, 2023

Liao W-W … Koren S … Nurk S … Rautiainen M … Rhie A … Walenz B … Phillippy AM … Paten B