Tonight I watched a short London Calling 2023 session entitled “The dark side of carrier screening: illuminating hard-to-decipher genes in common genetic disorders with nanopore sequencing.” Bradley Hall from Asuragen in the US was the presenter. Hall is the director of research in Asuragen. They spoke about how carrier screening has evolved and more genes […]
Kimberley Billingsley from the NIH Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (CARD) presented at London Calling 2023 on “Population-scale nanopore sequencing to further understand the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.” They described how the center’s mission is to support research for Alzheimer’s and other diseases. The center begins with genetics research. Billingsley noted […]
Tonight I watched the London Calling 2022 session by Richard Carter with the title “Scaling up nanopore sequencing.” Carter is the Senior Director of Information Systems at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. They spoke about storage and transfer of data from the PromethION. Carter’s example was a 60X human genome results in 1 TB of Fast5 files, […]



