This document summarizes research to build a platinum human genome assembly from long read sequencing of single haplotype human genomes. Last year, a study generated a high quality assembly of CHM1. This year, the researchers generated a new assembly of CHM13 using PacBio sequencing with an N50 of 12.9 Mb. However, analysis with BioNano and Illumina data revealed collapsed regions in the PacBio assembly due to segmental duplications. By integrating the PacBio assembly with BioNano maps, they generated hybrid scaffolds with fewer, larger contigs and resolved the collapsed regions. Comparing the new CHM13 assembly to CHM1 found they were highly consistent with only 13 variant sites, demonstrating the quality