Tonight I watched the March 2022 session with Cliv Brown explaining updates with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). I wanted to watch this longer (~45 min) session as we get closer to new updates. Brown spoke about how Nanopore signal is information rich and new approaches using machine learning algorithms. They explained the Q20+ chemistry with […]
Soren Heidelbach spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 about “Developing new bioinformatics methods to identify modifications from nanopore sequencing.” Heidelbach is from Aalborg University, Denmark. They did metagenomic binning: grouped contigs based on information from k-mers and coverage and also considered modification motifs. Their modification of metagenomic binning was to include base modification as […]
Levin Joe Klages from CeBiTec in Bielefeld University, Germany presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “Analysis of clinical research samples by nanopore sequencing with Q20+ chemistry reveals inaccurate classifications within the genus Serratia.” We used Q20+ chemistry to sequence a “red” isolate which ended up being Serratia according to our classification. I was […]
Sung won Lim from Binomica Labs in the USA did a flash talk at the Nanopore Community Meeting in 2022 about “MinION outcome in amateur research: three genomes from 2018 to 2022.” They started using MinION for fun as a “weekend project.” They sequenced Deinococcus radiophilus GCF 020889623.1 and compared it to other genomes deposited […]
Gabriela Pozo spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 about “Whole-genome sequencing of the Ecuadorian brown-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps fusciceps), a critically endangered species. Pozo is from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Pozo mentioned that this is a diurnal primate, with a mostly ripe fruit diet and also mushrooms and insects, and […]