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We confirm that long-read sequencing technologies are essential for maximizing genome quality and that unresolved complex repeats and haplotype heterozygosity are major sources of error in assemblies. Our new assemblies identify and correct substantial errors in some of the best historical reference genomes. Adopting these lessons, we have embarked on the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), an effort to generate high-quality, complete reference genomes for all ~70,000 extant vertebrate species and help enable a new era of discovery across the life sciences.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2020,"id":118233,"datarank":4.324167141827759,"base_score":5.278114659230518,"endowment":5.278114659230518,"self_citation_contribution":0.7917171988845778,"citation_network_contribution":3.532449942943182,"self_endowment_contribution":0.7917171988845778,"citer_contribution":3.532449942943182,"corpus_percentile":94.90214280188752,"corpus_rank":660,"citation_count":195,"citer_count":100,"citers_with_citation_signal":100,"citers_with_endowment":100,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":true,"is_dataset_confidence":0.6418,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":15623,"name":"Shane A McCarthy","orcid":"0000-0002-2715-4187","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30838,"name":"Olivier Fédrigo","orcid":"0000-0002-6450-7551","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":24579,"name":"Joana Damas","orcid":"0000-0003-4857-2510","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":21287,"name":"Giulio Formenti","orcid":"0000-0002-7554-5991","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":2118,"name":"Sergey Koren","orcid":"0000-0002-1472-8962","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":550050,"name":"Marcela Uliano‐Silva","orcid":"0000-0001-6723-4715","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":2108,"name":"William Chow","orcid":"0000-0002-9056-201X","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":49023,"name":"Arkarachai Fungtammasan","orcid":"0000-0003-2398-0358","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":550051,"name":"Gregory Gedman","orcid":"0000-0001-6819-2019","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":550052,"name":"Lindsey Cantin","orcid":"0000-0001-9715-533X","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":2130,"name":"Françoise Thibaud‐Nissen","orcid":"0000-0003-4957-7807","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":24475,"name":"Leanne Haggerty","orcid":"0000-0001-8843-3596","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":339406,"name":"Chul Lee","orcid":"0000-0001-5098-8529","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":550053,"name":"Byung June Ko","orcid":"0000-0002-5683-7438","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":551124,"name":"Juwan Kim","orcid":null,"position":15,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":55988,"name":"Iliana Bista","orcid":"0000-0002-6155-3093","position":16,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":292982,"name":"Michelle Smith","orcid":"0000-0001-5288-0001","position":17,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":550054,"name":"Bettina Haase","orcid":"0000-0001-8945-7282","position":18,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30895,"name":"Jacquelyn Mountcastle","orcid":"0000-0003-1078-4905","position":19,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":74514,"name":"Sylke Winkler","orcid":"0000-0002-0915-3316","position":20,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":24525,"name":"Sadye Paez","orcid":null,"position":21,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":35642,"name":"Jason T. 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