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Structural rearrangements may interrupt coding sequence or alter expression through promoter loss or gain, chromatin changes, copy-number variation, or disruption of short-range regulatory elements. Although short-read sequencing excels at detecting small variants, it performs poorly at resolving breakpoints of large rearrangements, especially in repetitive or low-complexity regions. Long-read sequencing overcomes these limitations, but analytical tools have not kept pace, making accurate identification and annotation of large structural variants challenging.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We developed AgileStructure, a desktop application for locating and annotating large\u2011scale genomic rearrangements using aligned long\u2011read data. 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