Mantas Sereika, a Ph.D. student at Aalborg University in Denmark, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Nanopore R10.4 enables near-perfect bacterial genomes.” This topic is of interest for several of the courses I teach. Sereika spoke about the improvements in accuracy of Nanopore sequencing. Raw read accuracy has increased but there are still […]
Matt Attreed presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “How to generate assemblies and call variants.” This is a Masterclass and started by describing the resources on the Nanopore website. There is a page dedicated page on Nanopore accuracy information. The session included different workflows that process FASTQ files to SAM, BAM, and other […]
Katherine Dixon from The University of British Columbia in Canada spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 about “Clinical and functional significance of germline variation in cancer susceptibility and disease.” Dixon spoke about the complexity of factors determining cancer. Between 15-20% of cancer show familial clustering, according to Dixon. In Canada, 300,000 are estimated to […]