Dylan Maghini from Stanford University presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2019 on “Genomes from metagenomes: assembling bacterial genomes with nanopore sequencing.” Maghini spoke about the importance of the human gut microbiome on human health. They noted that we still have an incomplete understanding of the gut microbiome. For example, de novo assembly aims to […]
Mantas Sereika from Aalborg University in Germany presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 a session with a title that caught my attention tonight: “Nanopore R10.4 enables near-perfect bacterial genomes.” They spoke about Nanopore sequencing raw read accuracy improvements and issues with homopolymers. Insertions and deletions in homopolymer regions can be an issue causing frameshifts. […]
Tonight, I watched the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston session on “Plasmid Core lab success story.”Mark Buddle is the co-founder and CEO of the Plasmidsaurus company. The title of Buddle’s session was “Setting a New Benchmark: The Emergence of Nanopore as the Standard for Plasmid and PCR Sequencing.” They have about 500 drop boxes for samples! […]
Medhat Mahmoud from the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston a session titled “Unraveling complex Mendelian diseases with nanopore sequencing.” They are in the Sedlacek lab and spoke about GREGoR: Genomics Research to Elucidate the Genetics of Rare Diseases project. GREGoR includes five research centers […]
Gus Gustafson from the University of Washington spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about “Understanding normal patterns of human structural variation with nanopore sequencing.” Gustafson is a second-year graduate student. They provided background, including these statistics: >50% of suspected Mendelian conditions remain undiagnosed after clinical testing, and up to 2/3 of structural variants […]
Eoghan Harrington and David Stoddard from Oxford Nanopore Technologies presented on December 18, 2018 about Assembly as part of the Nanopore Learning Knowledge Exchange series. They are both in the Applications group. Harrington started by sharing how they approach new assembly projects from planning to sequencing. They listed the steps: planning, sequencing, assembly, and quality […]
Jaime A. Chaves from San Francisco State University and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador spoke at London Calling 2023 on “Galapagos Genetic Barcode: a model for island economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Chaves explained how their interests in science and community merged with this project. Galapagos is a top tourist destination […]
Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 session by Gavin Arno from the University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital & North Thames Regional Genomics Laboratory Hub in the UK. Arno presented a session entitled “The potential clinical utility of amplicon and targeted nanopore sequencing for rare disease diagnosis.” They spoke about how […]
Continuing with Devin M. Drown’s work, today I watched their Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 session entitled “Portable genomics hackathon for pathogen detection: a practical application of adaptive sampling to engage undergraduate learning.” Drown is at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Drown explained that the MinION can be used to engage students in problem-solving and applications […]