Arang Rhie, PhD
Staff Scientist
arang.rhie
nih.gov
Arang received a BS in computer science in 2009 and MS in bioinformatics in 2011 from Ewha Womans University. She completed her PhD in 2017 at the Genome Medicine Institute, Department of Biomedical Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine. Her dissertation research aimed to build the first high-quality Korean reference genome for use in medical diagnostics. After her post-doctoral training in the Genome Informatics Section at NIH/NHGRI, she is continuing her research as a staff scientist, focusing on the reconstruction and evaluation of true haplotypes from long-read sequencing and other emerging technologies. She is an active member of the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), Earth Biogenome Project (EBP), Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) and the Telomere-to-Telomere consortium (T2T).
Merqury
Evaluate genome assemblies with k-mers and more
Winnowmap
A long-read mapping algorithm optimized for mapping ONT and PacBio reads to repetitive reference sequences.
SALSA
A tool to scaffold long read assemblies with Hi-C data
Canu
A single molecule sequence assembler for genomes large and small
Complete de novo assembly and re-annotation of the zebrafish genome
bioRxiv, November 17, 2025
Okendo J, Koren S, Rhie A, Torrado-Tapias A, Pickett BD, Brooks SY, Bouffard GG, Crawford JK, Sison C, Joardar VS, Murphy TD, Tierney JAS, Haggerty L, Martin FJ, Wilson C, Amores A, Postlethwait JH, Murphy J, Sakai N, Varga ZM, Phillippy AM, Burgess SM
The complete genome of a songbird
Bighorn sheep T2T genome assembly reveals differences in immune genes: a potential cause of high morbidity due to respiratory pathogens
Finishing a complete giraffe genome from telomere to telomere with Verkko-Fillet
bioRxiv, October 2, 2025
Kim J, Rosen BD, Fumagalli SE, Kuhn KL, Long A, Schoenebeck JJ, Schwartz H, Wu-Cavener L, Zimin AV, Cavener DR, Smith TPL, Phillippy AM, Koren S, Rhie A