Mikko Rautiainen, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (alum)

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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.

Publications

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

Telomere-to-telomere assembly of diploid chromosomes with Verkko

Nature Biotechnology, February 16, 2023

Rautiainen M, Nurk S, Walenz BP, Logsdon GA, Porubsky D, Rhie A, Eichler EE, Phillippy AM, Koren S

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

bioRxiv, December 1, 2022

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

The complete sequence of a human genome

Science, April 1, 2022

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