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The Mobile Suitcase Lab in Action

Tonight I watched the London Calling 2019 session by Ahmed Abd El Wahed from the University of Gottingen in Germany. The title of the presentation was “From ancient tomb to animal viruses: mobile suitcase lab for nanopore sequencing at field settings.” El Wahed spoke about the reagents and equipment needed to perform sequencing. They have […]
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Conservation Efforts Supported by Long-read Sequencing

Tonight I watched the entire London Calling 2023 Showcase Stage on Conservation. The first speaker was Luca Pandolfini from the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy who presented on “From genome assembly to epigenome characterisation: a nanopore journey in the footsteps of an endangered tortoise.” I remember this session! They worked on Pyxis arachnoides, a […]
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Portable GPUs

Miles Benton from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research in New Zealand spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Affordable GPU compute makes nanopore sequencing even more disruptive and empowering.”Benton is a senior scientist, bioinformatician, and an advocate of open, reproducible science. They share their materials on GitHub. Benton spoke about the birth […]
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