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04/10/2026, 1:58 PMdata/genomics/homo_sapiens/genome/cytoBand_hg38.txt from UCSC
• Needed by the telomerehunter nf-core module to pass the -b (banding file) flag
Why
TelomereHunter defaults to a bundled hg19 cytoband when no -b flag is given. On hg38-aligned BAMs, 8 chromosomes are longer than the hg19 cytobands, causing an IndexError crash. The companion nf-core/modules PR adds a cytoband input to the telomerehunter module and needs this test data.
Source
<http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg38/database/cytoBand.txt.gz>
1549 lines, tab-separated: chr, start, end, band, stain.
nf-core/test-datasetsGitHub
04/10/2026, 2:17 PMGitHub
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