We’ve been discussing the direct RNA sequencing kit and process in class. Tonight, I watched Bronya Boydon, Machine Learning Bioinformatician with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, provide the “Direct RNA basecaller update” as part of the Nanopore Community Meeting. Boydon described how RNA is translocated through the pore. Direct RNA has the benefits of long reads, simplicity, […]
Happy Thanksgiving! Tonight I watched a second video on EPI2ME Labs that is part of the Human genome sequencing and analysis course offered by Nanopore Learning. This half-hour video presented by Bala Periaswamy from Oxford Nanopore spoke about EPI2ME Labs and how it can run workflows through the use of Docker and Nextflow. The wf-human-variation […]
Mike Vella spoke at London Calling 2022 about “Dorado – a modern, C++, Torch-basecaller.” Vella is the Director of Machine Learning Operations with Oxford Nanopore. At the time of the recording, they had released a preview. Vella defined a basecaller as something that takes data from sensors and translates that into nucleotides… but Vella noted […]




