Today was Aurelio’s fifth birthday! Tonight, I watched Timothy Gilpatrick’s London Calling 2019 session on “Targeted nanopore sequencing with Cas9 for studies of methylation structural variants and mutations.” Gilpatrick is a Johns Hopkins University. They are interested in specific loci and want to generate high coverage of those areas to examine structural variation. The enrichment […]
Yufan Fan from Johns Hopkins University presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in December 2017. I had not watched this session, and the title captured my attention: Bacterial DNA modifications with Nanopore sequencing. This session was short and full of information. Fan spoke about how bacteria can unleash endonucleases to cut foreign DNA. Their own […]
Amanda Warr from The Roslin Institute in the UK presented at London Calling 2019, “Going full circle: assembly of high-quality, single-contig microbial genomes from the rumen microbiome using long-read sequencing.” I had not watched this session before! They spoke about the rumen: a specialized stomach with a complex microbial environment. They are interested in the […]
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 […]
Tonight, I watched the Nanopore Learning Knowledge Exchange about Direct RNA Sequencing. Libby Snell and Botond Sipos explained how the kit and process work. Snell began by addressing the question: why use direct RNA sequencing. They explained that it is truly native RNA sequencing since the RNA strand is read directly in the Nanopore. There […]
Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 session by Kieran O’Neil from Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer, Canada. The session title is “The potential of nanopore sequencing for personalised genomics.” They have been supporting a Personalized OncoGenomics Program (POG) that has focused on short-read whole genomes and interested in long-read sequencing […]
Sam Kovaka, a PhD candidate from Johns Hopkins University, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Visualization and analysis of nanopore RNA and DNA signal alignments with UNCALLED4.” They explained adaptive sampling (AKA “ReadUntil“): “software-based targeted sequencing via selective ejection of reads” Kovaka explained that this requires rapid identification based on the beginning of […]








