sequencing

High-throughput Contract Micro with ONT

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 […]
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Squiggle Analysis for Living and Dead Microorganisms

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 […]
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Melon Genome Sequencing and the NLRome

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 […]
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Genome Assemblies for Chromosomal Evolution Analyses of Marsupials

Patrick G.S. Grady from the University of Connecticut presented at London Calling 2023 a session entitled: “Unraveling chromosomal evolution in marsupials: comparative genomics and methylomics with telomere-to-telomere precision.” Grady spoke about the use of marsupials as a model. They have pentapedal locomotion, unique reproduction, and dynamic forms of cancer. Their genome scan be studied with […]
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A Unique Approach to Find Fantastic Methanotrophs

Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 session entitled “Fantastic methanotrophs and where to find them” by Kalinka Sand Knudsen from Aaborg University in Denmark. Knudsen spoke about how methane retains heat and reducing emissions is critical. Knudsen is interested in methane-consuming bacteria that can survive on elevated concentrations of methane and some can oxidize […]
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Targeted Nanopore Sequencing to Detect Immune Escape Variants

The five minute London Calling 2023 session entitled “Targeted nanopore sequencing using hybridisation probes reveals immune escape polymorphisms in malaria vaccine candidates” was a talk by Alyssa Barry from Deakin University in Australia. They spoke about the global number of cases of malaria, deaths, and people at risk. Malaria vaccine is challenging because of the […]
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EPI2ME Labs Metagenomics Workflows on the Cloud

Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 product demo for “Analysing bacterial genomes – from species identification to AMR.” Stephen Rudd, Director of Bioinformatics Product at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), shared their work on EPI2ME labs products. They have been developing EPI2ME Labs workflows for several years. These are pre-installed workflows that can help solve […]
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Workflows for Metagenomics and Isolate Genomes with ONT

The London Calling Metagenomics and isolate genome sequencing product demo was a fourteen-minute recording I watched tonight. The session was hosted by Rachel Rubinstein, a Technical Product Manager, Software, for Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). Rubinstein spoke about using ONT for bacterial and viral genome sequencing. The goal of the session was to share applications using […]
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Developments in ONT from LC2023

Tonight I watched the “Welcome back to London Calling 2023” session. Rosemary Sinclair Dokos, Senior VP of Product & Programme Management at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) was the presenter and began day two of London Calling 2023 by talking about the journey of ONT. Sinclair Dokos found several parallels between the London Underground construction and […]
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EPI2ME Workflows for ONT Data Analyses

Dilrini De Silva is a Field Applications Scientist in Bioinformatics for the EMEAI Region with Oxford Nanopore Technologies. De Silva presented a Masterclass at London Calling 2023 entitled “How to take your data analysis further.” This Masterclass focused on typical downstream analysis for several applications including genome assembly, variants, methylation, transcriptomics, and metagenome analysis. De […]
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