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Article History
Received: 22 May 2020
Accepted: 12 March 2021
First Online: 28 April 2021
Competing interests
: During the contributing period, B.T.H., M. Simbirsky, A.F. and M. Mooney were employees of DNAnexus Inc. S.B.K., R.H., Z.K., J. Korlach, I.S. and C.D. were full-time employees at Pacific Biosciences, a company developing single-molecule long read sequencing technologies. R.E.G., N.H.P., and J.G. were affiliated with Dovetail Genomics, a company developing genome assembly tools, including Hi-C. I.G. was affiliated with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a company generating long read sequencing technologies. A.H. and J.L were employees of Bionano Genomics, a company developing optical maps for genome assembly. S. Selvaraj was an employee of Arima Genomics, a company developing Hi-C data for genome assemblies. R.D. is a scientific advisory board member of Dovetail Inc. P. Flicek is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of Fabric Genomics, Inc., and Eagle Genomics, Ltd. H.C. receives royalties from the sale of UCSC Genome Browser source code, LiftOver, GBiB, and GBiC licenses to commercial entities. S.K. has received travel funds to speak at symposia organized by Oxford Nanopore. M.D. and L.N. receive royalties from licensing of UCSC Genome Browser. For W.E.J., the content here is not to be construed as the views of the DA or DOD. All other authors declare no competing interests.