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).
Verkko-Fillet
Post-verkko graph and assembly curation in Python
T2T-Polish
Evaluation and polishing workflows for T2T genome assemblies
Merfin
Evaluate variant calls and its combination with k-mer multiplicity
Merqury
Evaluate genome assemblies with k-mers and more
Human acrocentric chromosome short-arm de novo mutation and recombination
Cell, August 6, 2026
Lin J, Mastrorosa FK, Noyes MD, Yoo D, Rhie A, Porubsky D, Hoekzema K, Munson KM, Koundinya N, Watkins WS, Jorde LB, Quinlan AR, Neklason DW, Phillippy AM, Eichler EE
The complete genome of a songbird
Finishing a complete giraffe genome from telomere to telomere with Verkko-Fillet
Cell Genomics, August 6, 2026
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
A complete diploid human genome benchmark for personalized genomics