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Oncol."],"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    Oncogenic viral infections are major contributors to cancer development worldwide. Tumor-associated viruses such as human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), Epstein\u2013Barr virus (EBV), and Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) can promote malignant transformation through diverse mechanisms, including persistent viral gene expression, chronic inflammation, and, in some cases, integration of viral DNA into the host genome. Among these, HPV is one of the most clinically important DNA tumor viruses and is a major driver of cancers of the cervix, anus, penis, vagina, vulva, and oropharynx, collectively accounting for over 400,000 deaths annually (\n                    <jats:xref>1<\/jats:xref>\n                    ). In infected cells, HPV can persist as episomal DNA or integrate into the host genome. Importantly, HPV integration plays an important role in tumorigenesis and often generates complex viral\u2013host genomic rearrangements that are difficult to resolve using conventional short-read sequencing approaches. Long-read sequencing technologies offer new opportunities to reconstruct these intricate integration structures, but the performance of existing assembly strategies remains incompletely evaluated. In this study, we systematically review sequencing platforms and their application for detecting structural variants and evaluate long-read assembly tools for reconstructing HPV integration structures. Using three synthetic Oxford Nanopore DNA sequencing datasets representing different levels of integration complexity together with the UMSCC47 cell line as an authentic long-read sequencing dataset, we assess whether structural-variant detection methods and genome assembly can accurately identify complex integration structures, particularly under conditions of high copy number and structural rearrangement. 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