Launch of the T2T Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere

GigaScience’s T2T Series has now launched, with our first papers showcasing new Telomere-to-Telomere methods and genomic data sets.

While the first draft of the Human Genome was declared complete in April 2003, it took a further two decades for the publication of the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome in March 2022. The work was done by the Telomere to Telomere (T2T) consortium, which was a years-long global collaboration led by geneticists at UC Santa Cruz, University of Washington...