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
The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes
Nature, September 24, 2025
de Lima LG, Guarracino A, Koren S, Potapova T, McKinney S, Rhie A, Solar SJ, Seidel C, Fagen BL, Walenz BP, Bouffard GG, Brooks SY, Peterson M, Hall K, Crawford J, Young AC, Pickett BD, Garrison E, Phillippy AM, Gerton JL
A complete diploid human genome benchmark for personalized genomics
bioRxiv, September 21, 2025
Near-complete Middle Eastern genomes refine autozygosity and enhance disease-causing and population-specific variant discovery
Nature Genetics, May 5, 2025
Ghorbani M … Rhie A … Mokrab Y
Complete sequencing of ape genomes