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HitSV

Structural variant caller with haplotype-resolved local assembly that works on PacBio HiFi, ONT, hybrid and short-read data.

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CategorySequencing & variant calling
GitHubhitbc/HitSV
First public2026-02-20 (source)
Paperhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03332-9 · Nature Biotechnology (2026)
LicenseGPL-3.0
PricingOpen source
Tags#structural-variants#long-read#variant-calling
Last checked2026-10-16

Specs

Sequencing platformPacBio HiFi, ONT, Illumina, hybrid
TaskStructural variant calling and genotyping
Variant typesSVs
GitHub stars40
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