Rupesh Kesharwani from the Baylor College of Medicine, HGSC & University of North Texas HSC, presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston on “STRspy 2.0: unlocking the potential of long reads for forensic DNA profiles.” They shared that STRs are short tandem 2-7 bp repeats that account for 3% of the human genome. Individuals have […]
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! […]
Marcus Stoiber, Principal Algorithms Researcher with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, presented an update on modified bases at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston. They began describing how modified bases are detected from nanopore sequencing data. Remora detects modified bases on top of base calling. This is an analogy to Remora latching on to bigger fish and […]
Matt Parker, the Associate Director for Clinical Bioinformatics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about updates to EPI2ME. The session started with a new video about EPI2ME, highlighting the intuitive interface, real-time data, and cloud or local analyses. Parker said you can take a MinION and laptop into the […]
Joyjit Daw, a Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), provided a Dorado update at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston meeting. The Dorado v0.5.0 release supports core Guppy features, custom barcodes, read splitting, and Minimap2 alignment. Dorado has been integrated into MinKNOW. They have also extended features such as hemi methylation for the […]
Mikhail Kolmogorov from the National Cancer Institute, NIH, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston about “Nanopore sequencing reveals structural heterogeneity in canine osteosarcoma.” Structural variants are any alterations greater than 50 bp. These events can affect one or multiple genes… or whole chromosomes! NCI has a comparative osteosarcoma (OS) program that recruits dogs nationwide. […]
“Reveal more: bring streamlined nanopore sequencing into your lab” is the title of the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston session I watched tonight. Rachel Rubinstein, a Technical Product Manager, explained new developments to streamline nanopore sequencing. Rubinstein emphasized “end-to-end” processes. They began describing the range of the PromethION devices, from the P2 to the PromethION 48. […]
Bradley Hall from Asuragen presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston. The session was titled “AmplideX PCR and nanopore sequencing for accessible carrier screening for any lab.” Hall started by stating that “everyone is a genetic carrier of a disease or condition.” There are >2000 conditions, and carrier screening is often challenging for some […]
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 […]
Mariela Cortes Lopez from the Weil Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about “GoT-Splice: unraveling cell-type-specific impact of splicing factor mutations.” Cortes Lopez is investigating mutations in splicing factors. They started by explaining that cells accumulate mutations with age and, therefore, the genomes of cells are […]