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Ultra-Fast Classifiers for Pediatric Tumors: Insights from Lennart Kester

I am back from SABER and getting settled. Tonight I watched Lennart Kester from the Princess Maxima Center in The Netherlands present on “Ultra-fast deep-learned classification algorithms for diagnosing pediatric CNS and solid tumors” at London Calling 2025. Kester explained that over the years they have observed an increase in the number of tumor entities, […]
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Challenges in Diagnosing Pediatric Leukemias in Low-Income Countries

Javeria Aijaz from the Indus Hospital and Health Network in Pakistan presented at London Calling 2025 on “Pediatric leukemias: clinical validation of Oxford Nanopore-based gene expression profiling.” Aijaz explained that pediatric leukemias are divided into three lineages. Classification often requires flow cytometry. WHO introduced the category of “Not Further Classified” (NFC). Currently, comprehensive diagnosis requires […]
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Acute Leukemia Classification Using Machine Learning

Salvatore Benfatto from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute presented at London Calling 2025 on “Rapid epigenomic classification of acute leukemia.” Benfatto started with a clinical case of a sixty-one year old female patient with intermittent fevers, fatigue, and leukocytosis. Multiple tests had to be run in parallel, including flow cytometry, karyotyping, immunohistochemistry… The process is time […]
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Ultra-fast Deep-learned CNS Tumor Classification using Nanopore-sequencing

I watched a session from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies Clinical & Biopharma Day tonight. It was held on May 24, 2024 (part of London Calling 2024). Professor Pieter Wesseling is from the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in the Netherlands. He is also from the Amsterdam University Medical Centers. He presented the session titled […]
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SamnSero Workflow: Real-time Bacterial Genome Analysis

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 […]
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Profiling Gene Expression of Pediatric Leukemia Samples

Jeremy Wang from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Classification of pediatric acute leukemia using full-length transcriptomics.” This research was a collaboration for a pediatric oncologist also at UNC. They spoke about the variation in treatment of pediatric cancers based on local. Cellular and genetic […]
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