Georg Kolling, a Principal Algorithms Scientist with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, presented at London Calling a session entitled “How we get the most out of GPUs (for sequencing).”They began with an overview of basecalling: interpreting the read sequence with machine learning as bases. For this, a deep neural network (deep learning) is used to approximate with […]
This is the second time I watch Natalie Ring present at London Calling 2023. In this eleven minute recording, Ring spoke about the Zootails project. Ring is from The Roslin Institute in the UK, and the session was entitled “Zootails: implementing nanopore sequencing for veterinary diagnostics.” The goal is to develop rapid and affordable culture-free […]
Ahmed Abd El Wahed from Leipzig University in Germany talked at London Calling 2023 about “Pathogen and species identification using a mobile suitcase laboratory.” I have been thinking about this for a while and just today received an email from Bento Lab. El Wahed recorded the talk outside and next to the mobile suitcase lab. […]
Hans-Peter Fasching a Study Director from ViruSure in Austria presented at London Calling 2023 an eight-minute session entitled “Identification of viral contamination of biopharmaceutical product using nanopore sequencing.” They mentioned that ViruSure offers a variety of biosafety tests to the biopharmaceutical industry including qPCR, virus clearance, genetic stability, and many more. Fasching presented a case […]
Nick Vereecke from PathoSense BV in Belgium presented at London Calling 2023 on “Coninfection in endemic influenza A virus-infected herds using nanopore metagenomic sequencing of tracheobronchial swabs.” Vereecke spoke about the complexity of porcine respiratory diseases: there is a mix of coronaviruses and bacteria. For some of the microbes involved, there are no lab culture […]
One of the London Calling 2023 Showcase Stage sessions was on Targeted Sequencing. Tonight, i watched the four-minute recording entitled “Rapid identification of bacterial invasion: full-length 16S or adaptive sampling?” The title intrigued me! I am waiting for the release of the updated 16S amplicon kit. There were several panelists and Thidathip Wongsurawat from the […]
Andrzej Benkowski from Eurofins USA presented at London Calling 2023 a five-minute session on the “Practical uses of nanopore long-read sequencing in a high-throughput contract food microbiology laboratory.” They are a high-throughput contract lab specializing in food and dietary supplement investigations using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) with the GridION. One client experienced an increase […]
Tonight I watched Dan Fordham, Director of Strategic Product Management EMEA at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) speak at London Calling 2023 about. Fordham is the lead for the Org.one project in which ONT tries to address the global biodiversity crisis. ORG.one offers free consumables and kits to users sequencing critically endangered organisms. One of the […]
Tonight, I watched Harika Urel from the Helmholtz AI Institute and Technical University of Munich present a five-minute talk at London Calling 2023. The intriguing title of the recording is “Squiggle analysis for metagenomics viability inference.” Urel is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Lara Urban’s lab. I have watched several talks by Urban in the […]
Javier Belinchon-Moreno from INRAE-EPGV in France spoke at London Calling 2023 about “Exploring the genetic and functional diversity of the NLRome/resistome in melon using nanopore adaptive sampling.” They started by describing how Nanopore adaptive sampling works and its adaptability to a variety of uses. Belinchon-Moreno and team used Nanopore adaptive sampling (NAS) to “decipher the […]











