Routine production of phased sequences (haplotypes) of genomes are important to study variation occurring in complex cancer and healthy samples. We developed a novel graph-based algorithm to integrate HiFi and Hi-C data types to produce haplotypes at the base-level resolution for routine clinical research. When benchmarking our method on healthy human genomes, we produced significantly high-quality genomes with a sequence continuity NG50 >130 Mb, switch/hamming error rates <1.5% and a completeness of >6.0 Gb, and an order of magnitude faster process (only <12 hours). This simple approach will facilitate improvement in understanding of the mechanisms of clinical diseases.

(requiring g++ and zlib)
git clone https://github.com/shilpagarg/pstools.git
cd pstools && make

Once you compiled the repo, you will see binary file pstools in the same directory. Now you are ready to go to produce fully phased sequences on chromosome level.

# Use Hi-C data and node sequences of hifiasm graph (awk '/^S/{print ">"$2;print $3}' hifiasm_r_utg.gfa > hifiasm_r_utg.fa)
pstools hic_mapping -t32 -o <map.out> <hifiasm_r_utg.fa> <hic.R1.fastq.gz> <hic.R2.fastq.gz>

# Use Hi-C mapped reads through hifiasm graph to produce fully phased sequences
pstools resolve_haplotypes -t32 -i true <map.out> <hifiasm_r_utg.gfa> <out>
# where `map.out` is the file from above process, `hifiasm_r_utg.gfa` is the hifiasm r_utg graph and `out` is the output directory name.
This command produces fully phased sequences in `pred_hap1.fa` and `pred_hap2.fa`.  

Table shows the benchmarking results of HG002 using OmniC or Arima genomics data:

For further experiments, please run `experiments.sh`.

1. At the current stage, the phased sequences don't contain centromeric regions.
2. The UL nanopore data is not used.
3. Need to be tested on trio-hifiasm graph

Note that pstools is under active development. For any issues or suggestions, please create an issue or a pull request.