Brian P. Walenz

National Human Genome Research Institute — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(55), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations(35), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms(16), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering(11), Genomics and Rare Diseases(9)

Publications82 total

Fully Phased Telomere-to-Telomere Assemblies for Thoroughbred Horse and Donkey Haplotypes derived from a Mule Illuminate the Peculiar Evolution of Equid Centromeres
2026Open Access
The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes
Nature·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Verkko2 integrates proximity-ligation data with long-read De Bruijn graphs for efficient telomere-to-telomere genome assembly, phasing, and scaffolding
Genome Research·2025· 18 citedOpen Access
Verkko2: Integrating proximity ligation data with long-read De Bruijn graphs for efficient telomere-to-telomere genome assembly, phasing, and scaffolding
2024· 6 citedOpen Access
The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes
2024· 8 citedOpen Access
The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
Nature·2023· 417 citedOpen Access
Telomere-to-telomere assembly of diploid chromosomes with Verkko
Nature Biotechnology·2023· 396 citedOpen Access
The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
2022· 42 citedOpen Access
Verkko: telomere-to-telomere assembly of diploid chromosomes
2022· 46 citedOpen Access
The complete sequence of a human genome
Science·2022· 3.1k citedOpen Access
Merfin: improved variant filtering, assembly evaluation and polishing via k-mer validation
Nature Methods·2022· 66 citedOpen Access
Merfin: improved variant filtering and polishing via k-mer validation
2021· 15 citedOpen Access
The complete sequence of a human genome
2021· 180 citedOpen Access
Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species
Nature·2021· 2.8k citedOpen Access
The genomic structure of a human chromosome 22 nucleolar organizer region determined by TAR cloning
Scientific Reports·2021· 19 citedOpen Access
Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies
Genome biology·2020· 3.2k citedOpen Access
HiCanu: accurate assembly of segmental duplications, satellites, and allelic variants from high-fidelity long reads
Genome Research·2020· 808 citedOpen Access
Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species
2020· 195 citedOpen Access
Effect of sequence depth and length in long-read assembly of the maize inbred NC358
Nature Communications·2020· 67 citedOpen Access
Weighted minimizer sampling improves long read mapping
Bioinformatics·2020· 222 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Sergey Koren(25), Adam M. Phillippy(20), Arang Rhie(18), Jason Miller(15), Evan E. Eichler(11), Sergey Nurk(8), Glennis A. Logsdon(8), Giulio Formenti(7), Arkarachai Fungtammasan(7), Françoise Thibaud‐Nissen(7), Granger G. Sutton(7), Mikko Rautiainen(6), Mitchell R. Vollger(6), Erik Garrison(6), David Porubský(6), Michael C. Schatz(6), Aaron L. Halpern(6), J. Craig Venter(6), Mark Diekhans(5), Chen-Shan Chin(5)