David Yarmosh from ATCC presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston. The session’s title was intriguing: “How good is good enough?” Yarmosh is a bioinformatician with ATCC. They noted that the ATCC was founded in 1925 and now has nearly 5,000 genomes. Yarmosh explained that they are doing about 1,000 genome assemblies per year. […]
Tonight, I watched the London Calling EPI2ME product demo: “EPI2ME: democratising bioinformatics—from point-and-click analysis to custom integrations.” Natalia Garcia, a Bioinformatics Workflow Developer with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, explained how workflows use Nextflow and Docker containers. Seventeen workflows were available at the time of the recording during London Calling. Workflows can be run via the command […]
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 […]




