Publications with Brandon Pickett, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly and a pangenome for the rat
Cell Genomics, August 6, 2026
Li K, Ciosek JL, Koren S, Phillippy AM, Zhu Y, Lauer WA, Brooks SY, Bouffard GG, Pickett BD, Dumont BL, Smith ML, Kalbfleisch TS, Doris PA
Phased T2T horse and donkey assemblies from a mule reveal peculiar equid centromere evolution
Cell Genomics, August 6, 2026
A complete diploid human genome benchmark for personalized genomics
HPRC2: A human pangenome reference with near-complete coverage of common genetic variation
Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes
bioRxiv, December 23, 2025
Solar SJ, Hebbar P, Gomes de Lima L, Sweeten A, Rhie A, Potapova T, de Gennaro L, Guarracino A, Kim J, Pickett BD, Paten B, Wilson MA, Koren S, Garrison E, Eichler EE, Ventura M, Gerton JL, Phillippy AM
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 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
Complete sequencing of ape genomes
The Ruminant Telomere to Telomere (RT2T) Consortium
The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes
Scalable, accessible, and reproducible reference genome assembly and evaluation in Galaxy