{
  "id": 14457105,
  "title": "Towards standards for analysing structural variants from short-read whole genome sequencing data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/towards-standards-for-analysing-structural-variants-from-short-read",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.13.758836v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "No widely accepted standard exists for analysing structural variants from short-read whole genome sequencing (WGS) data. We use comprehensive SV truth sets (HG002 T2T-Q100, Platinum Pedigree) and long-read sequencing databases (1KGP-ONT, CoLoRS) to benchmark SV breakpoints and sizes at base pair resolution. Using 30X Illumina WGS data, only five of sixteen individual tools tested reliably output…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}