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ArticleNature biotechnology2025

Comprehensive genome analysis and variant detection at scale using DRAGEN.

Sairam Behera, Severine Catreux, Massimiliano Rossi, Sean Truong, Zhuoyi Huang, Michael Ruehle, Arun Visvanath, Gavin Parnaby, Cooper Roddey, Vitor Onuchic and 7 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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91 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Sairam Behera *Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9047-0203
Severine Catreux *Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. scatreux@illumina.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-1813-1240
Massimiliano Rossi *Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3012-1394
Sean TruongIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-7584-2688
Zhuoyi HuangIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
Michael RuehleIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-2952-9274
Arun VisvanathIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
Gavin ParnabyIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7432-8246
Cooper RoddeyIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-4031-3418
Vitor OnuchicIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
Andrea FinocchioIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-5351
Daniel L CameronIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
Adam EnglishHuman Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Shyamal MehtaliaIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
James HanIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. jhan6@illumina.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-0333-7568
Rami MehioIllumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. rmehio@illumina.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6908-103X
Fritz J SedlazeckHuman Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. fritz.sedlazeck@bcm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6040-2691

Funding

Frequency of variants of unknown significance by ancestry groups in the All of Us Research Program cohortU01HG011758 · NHGRI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI RICHARD A GIBBS, JAMES R. LUPSKI · 2021 to 2026
$13.8M
Therapeutic target discovery in ADSP data via comprehensive whole-genome analysis incorporating ethnic diversity and systems approachesU01AG058589 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI BOERWINKLE, ERIC A., DE JAGER, PHILIP L · 2018 to 2022
$11.1M
Identification of somatic/ mosaic SV and transposon activity and their crosstalk to DNA epigenetic ModificationsUG3NS132105 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SEDLAZECK, FRITZ J, WU, TAO · 2023 to 2024
$580k
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG011758NIA NIH HHS U01 AG058589NINDS NIH HHS UG3 NS132105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research and medical genomics require comprehensive, scalable methods for the discovery of novel disease targets, evolutionary drivers and genetic markers with clinical significance. This necessitates a framework to identify all types of variants independent of their size or location. Here we present DRAGEN, which uses multigenome mapping with pangenome references, hardware acceleration and machine learning-based variant detection to provide insights into individual genomes, with ~30 min of computation time from raw reads to variant detection. DRAGEN outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in speed and accuracy across all variant types (single-nucleotide variations, insertions or deletions, short tandem repeats, structural variations and copy number variations) and incorporates specialized methods for analysis of medically relevant genes. We demonstrate the performance of DRAGEN across 3,202 whole-genome sequencing datasets by generating fully genotyped multisample variant call format files and demonstrate its scalability, accuracy and innovation to further advance the integration of comprehensive genomics. Overall, DRAGEN marks a major milestone in sequencing data analysis and will provide insights across various diseases, including Mendelian and rare diseases, with a highly comprehensive and scalable platform.

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Genetic VariationGenome, HumanGenomicsSoftwareDNA Copy Number VariationsHumansMachine LearningPolymorphism, Single NucleotideWhole Genome Sequencing

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PMCPMC12022141

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