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To fully leverage HiFi reads to advance cancer genomics and epigenetics, researchers require an end-to-end, scalable and optimized bioinformatics workflow. The nf-core framework meets this need by providing rigorously tested, community-curated pipelines that ensure reproducibility, transparency, and broad compatibility across computational environments.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present nf-core\/pacsomatic, an automated Nextflow DSL2 pipeline designed for comprehensive paired tumor\u2013normal somatic analysis using PacBio HiFi data. The workflow includes steps for read alignments against reference genome, somatic SNV\/indel, SV, and CNV calling, CpG methylation profiling and differential methylation region (DMR) detection. 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