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Popular short-read typing can only accurately distinguish alleles at the coding sequence level, which potentially limit our understanding of the effect of variants in non-coding region. Long read data has been proved to be useful in typing HLA alleles in full resolution, but only a few tools are publicly available and with significant limitations in practical application.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We developed FuFiHLA, a lightweight open-source software, to type HLA alleles. Currently it supports typing alleles of six HLA genes (HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQA1, and HLA-DQB1) from long reads. Evaluation using 233 PacBio HiFi WGS samples from HPRC shows that FuFiHLA achieves 99.6% accuracy in the full field allele typing and QV as 51.8 for consensus allele sequence construction. 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