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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

nf-core/pacsomatic: a scalable somatic analytic pipeline using PacBio HiFi data.

Wenchao Zhang, Haidong Yi, Beifang Niu, Gang Wu, Ti-Cheng Chang

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Wenchao ZhangCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, United States.
Haidong YiCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, United States.
Beifang NiuCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, United States.
Gang WuCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1678-5864
Ti-Cheng ChangCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, United States.

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Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Shondra Michelle Miller · 1985 to 2026
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NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765
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motivationPacific Biosciences (PacBio) HiFi long-read sequencing enables robust characterization of complex genomic regions, repetitive elements, and structural variants (SVs) that are often inaccessible to short-read technologies. To fully leverage HiFi reads to advance cancer genomics and epigenetics, researchers require an end-to-end, scalable and optimized bioinformatics workflow. The nf-core framework meets this need by providing rigorously tested, community-curated pipelines that ensure reproducibility, transparency, and broad compatibility across computational environments.

resultsWe present nf-core/pacsomatic, an automated Nextflow DSL2 pipeline designed for comprehensive paired tumor-normal somatic analysis using PacBio HiFi data. The workflow includes steps for read alignments against reference genome, somatic SNV/indel, SV, and CNV calling, CpG methylation profiling and differential methylation region (DMR) detection. Additional downstream modules support functional annotation, mutational signature analysis, tumor purity and ploidy estimation, and homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) assessment. Utilizing nf-core's modular design and containerized execution, nf-core/pacsomatic provides a stable framework for the reproducible discovery of biological insights. AVAILABILITY: nf-core/pacsomatic is available under the MIT License at nf-core (https://nf-co.re/pacsomatic) and github (https://github.com/nf-core/pacsomatic).

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Computational BiologyGenomicsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingNeoplasmsSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareDNA MethylationHumans

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PMID42658653
PMCPMC13549938

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