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A reference genome is a high quality individual genome that is used as a coordinate system for the genomes of a population, or genomes of closely related subspecies. Given a set of genomes partitioned by homology into alignment blocks we formalise the problem of ordering and orienting the blocks such that the resulting ordering maximally agrees with the underlying genomes’ ordering and orientation, creating a pangenome reference ordering. We show this problem is NP-hard, but also demonstrate, empirically and within simulations, the performance of heuristic algorithms based upon a cactus graph decomposition to find locally maximal solutions. We describe an extension of our Cactus software to create a pangenome reference for whole genome alignments, and demonstrate how it can be used to create novel genome browser visualizations using human variation data as a test.
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Nguyen, N. et al. (2014). Building a Pangenome Reference for a Population. In: Sharan, R. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8394. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05269-4_17
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