Ana Peres from UNC-Chapel Hill presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting on “Unraveling gene expression patterns in pediatric germ cell tumors: a nanopore sequencing approach.” They spoke about how rare pediatric tumors are and the differentiation stages. Germ cell tumors can occur in the gonads and along the midline of the body. Peres and team […]
Dmitrijs Rots from Erasmus MC in the Netherlands presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston (NCM Boston 2024) on “DNA methylation signature detection using ultra-rapid, long-read nanopore genome sequencing.” Rots mentioned that Erasmus MC is one of the largest hospitals in Europe! The team wanted to implement nanopore sequencing to test for methylation and […]
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 […]
Billy Lau from Stanford University returned to London Calling 2024 and spoke about “Joint fragmentomic and methylation signatures of cfDNA for cancer detection.” They began by defining liquid biopsies for non-invasive cancer measurement as typically being blood draws used for sequencing and multi-omic analyses. They also explained how epigenetic reprogramming in cancer occurs and how […]
Billy Lau from Stanford University School of Medicine spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about “Nanopore sequencing of cell-free DNA for methylation-based breast cancer detection.” I have watched Lau speak at other ONT events. This session was about a research study to improve cancer detection. Lau spoke about breast cancer detection issues. Liquid […]
Adaptive sampling and real-time in silico enrichment have come up frequently in the last couple of months. I still haven’t used this feature and want to learn more. Tonight I watched the London Calling 2022 session by Alex Sneddon from the Australian National University entitled “RISER: real-time in silico enrichment of RNA species from nanopore […]






