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The Significance of Long Reads in Determining Intronic Mutations

Today, I watched another London Calling 2024 studio interview. Zoe McDougall interviewed three speakers. Tom Walsh from the University of Washington spoke about how long reads are important to determine intronic mutations. The full locus of BRCA1 is over 100 kb, and intronic mutations can occur with significant implications. Mike Clark from the University of […]
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Advancements in Multi-Omics and Precision Health at London Calling 2024

The studio interviews at London Calling 2024 I watched tonight focused on clinical and translational applications. Zoe McDougall asked the three interviewees about the highlights of the updates talk. Ewan Birney director of EMBL-EBI in the UK spoke about the quality updates. Justin O’Sullivan from Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland in New Zealand […]
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Advancing Research and Applications in the Next Decade

Tonight, I watched another London Calling 2024 studio interview. Zoe McDougall previously interviewed two of the three guests. Ronja Friedhoff is a master’s student at the Technische Universitat Braunschweig in Germany. They explained the benefits of networking opportunities at London Calling 2024: Friedhoff learned about new research areas and met new people. Ivo Gut from […]
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From Troubleshooting to Streamlining

What a weekend! I am back from the NSF ENCOUR conference. I continued watching studio interviews from London Calling 2024. Tonight, the session I watched focused on pathogen surveillance and community and collaboration. Amanda Warr from The Roslin Institute spoke about learning to use Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) with metagenomic samples and troubleshooting in the […]
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Telomeres, Cell-free RNAs, and On-site Sequencing

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 studio interview about innovations in conservation and RNA in liquid biopsy. Zoe McDougall interviewed three researchers about conservation genomics and the accessibility of the technologies. Mrinalini Wasta from the San Diego Zoe Wildlife Alliance spoke about the challenges of taking samples from outside communities and involving partners. The […]
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CoRAL ecDNA Analysis Toolkit

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 session “CoRAL accurately resolves extrachromosomal DNA structures with long-read sequencing.” Matthew Jones from Stanford University was the presenter and spoke about their toolkit to study extrachromosomal (ecDNA) oncogene (focal) amplifications. ecDNA seems to be large (100 kb-50 Mb) circular and highly rearranged. Jones noted it is also rapidly […]
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From Plant to Publication in a Couse

I have been curious about the title of a session from London Calling 2024: “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig in Germany was the presenter and explained the wide variety of plants and potential for genome sequencing. Wolf and the team wanted to enable students to […]
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Portable Lab for Wastewater DNA Extraction

Tonight, I started watching sessions from London Calling 2024! Rea Kobialka from the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health in Germany presented a session entitled “Mobile lab for rapid detection of pathogens in wastewater in sub-Saharan Africa.” They emphasized the importance of surveillance. The research team developed a portable suitcase mobile lab. The […]
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Whole Genome Plasmid Sequencing

Tonight, I watched a recent Oxford Nanopore Technologies video about plasmid sequencing. The title is “A new and improved ‘gold standard’ for complete plasmid verification.” This session was a Knowledge Exchange with Aaron Pomerantz, Segment Marketing Manager at ONT. They spoke about plasmids and their use in molecular biology and industrial processes. Sanger sequencing has […]
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