Continuing with London Calling 2023, today I watched The Daily Preview with interviews with Thidathip Wongsurawat, Jon Hale, and Matt Loose. The recording was only eleven minutes long. Zoe McDougall from ONT Communications interviewed them. Wongsurawat spoke about the bottlenecks in cancer genomics in Bangkok. They were excited about automated analyses and pipelines that streamline detection. Wongsurawat mentioned that bioinformatics is a challenge across many sites in Asia. The EPI2ME pipelines allow faster and more efficient analyses. Jon Hale spoke about bringing students to London Calling and sequencing daffodils from a natural collection. Hale is a head of biology at a UK school and was excited about all the genomes students are sequencing in different parts of the world. Matt Loose is a “pioneer of PromethION and adaptive sampling.” They are at the University of Nottingham. They are excited about the P2 solo and new devices. Loose wants to run morme samples with the P2 Solo and work with clinicians. McDougall noted that traditionally high output devices are found only in core facilities. The P2 Solo (and P2 next year?) bring PromethION output to many more labs. Wongsurawat has done metagenomic and genomic samples on the P2 Solo. Loose explained how rapid diagnosis will greatly improve with new advances. Hale ended by emphasizing the need to inform and train students about high-throughput sequencing.
