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Complex Karyotype Analysis with Nanopore Sequencing

Anna Dolnik from the Charite University Medical Center in Berlin, Germany, presented at London Calling 2019 on “Genomic profiling in acute myeloid leukemia with complex karyotype.” They presented data on the survival of over 5,100 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The WHO in 2016 revised the classification of AML. A newly diagnosed AML patient, […]
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Duplications, Rearrangements, and Complex Bacterial Genomes

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2019 session “Ultra-long reads and ultra-long duplications: deciphering the mysteries of the Bordetella pertussis genome.” Natalie Ring from the University of Bath in the UK was the presenter. They spoke about whooping cough and how the introduction of vaccination in the 1950s reduced the number of reported cases. In […]
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Eleven Human Genomes in Nine Days

Tonight, I watched Miten Jain’s London Calling 2019 presentation on “Generating high-quality reference human genomes using PromethION nanopore sequencing.” Jain is from the University of California, Santa Cruz. They have developed a framework to produce reference-quality human genomes in a week. Jain spoke about the need to sequence many human genomes that can serve as […]
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Learning about Phytoplankton with Ship-Seq

Emma Langan from the Earlham Institute in the UK spoke at London Calling 2019 on “Ship-Seq: nanopore sequencing of polar microbes onboard research vessels.” This was Langan’s Ph.D. project. Phytoplankton are photosynthetic organisms that live in water. They are responsible for carbon cycling and biogeochemical cycling. Langan is interested in diatoms, which are mainly found […]
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Comparison of Different scRNA-seq Methods

Mike Clark from the University of Melbourne in Australia presented at London Calling 2019 on “Deep transcriptomic sampling with long-read single cell RNA sequencing.” Clark gave the first talk in the session and explained the power of expression profiles of single cells (scRNA-seq) to identify cell types and variations in gene expression. scRNA-seq can be […]
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Revisiting and Validating Structural Variants

My Linh Thibodeau from the University of British Columbia in Canada presented at London Calling 2019 on “Resolution of germline hereditary cancer structural variants using nanopore sequencing.” They began talking about the Personalized OncoGenomics Program (POG), which is an initiative of BC Cancer. The study enrolls participants and conducts extensive genomic analyses. The team evaluated […]
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Enriching and Guiding Sequencing

Today was Aurelio’s fifth birthday! Tonight, I watched Timothy Gilpatrick’s London Calling 2019 session on “Targeted nanopore sequencing with Cas9 for studies of methylation structural variants and mutations.” Gilpatrick is a Johns Hopkins University. They are interested in specific loci and want to generate high coverage of those areas to examine structural variation. The enrichment […]
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The Mobile Suitcase Lab in Action

Tonight I watched the London Calling 2019 session by Ahmed Abd El Wahed from the University of Gottingen in Germany. The title of the presentation was “From ancient tomb to animal viruses: mobile suitcase lab for nanopore sequencing at field settings.” El Wahed spoke about the reagents and equipment needed to perform sequencing. They have […]
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Searching for Active Transposable Elements in Rice Genomes

Marie-Christine Carpentier, from the Genome and Plant Development Laboratory in France, presented at London Calling 2019 on “Using long-read nanopore sequencing to unravel structural variations in plants.” We have been trying plant genome sequencing and want to learn more. Carpentier spoke about transposable elements. Mobile elements can move within a genome. Carpentier noted that the […]
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Splicing Detection with Long Reads

Kuan-Ting Li from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory presented at London Calling 2019 on “PSI-Sigma: a comprehensive splicing-detection method for short-read and long-read RNA-seq analysis.” PSI-Sigma is a splicing detection tool that measures percent spliced in. With nanopore long-read RNA-seq data, PSI sigma presents a newer splicing detection approach. PSI-sigma was benchmarked on synthetic RNAs and […]
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