Vania Costa from Oxford Nanopore Technologies has recorded several Master Classes and sessions with ONT. I watched the London Calling 2019 session “The fever tree: extracting and preparing the DNA of Cinchona pubescens.” This plant produces quinine that is used for malaria and fever treatment. The team wanted to sequence the Cinchona genome to learn […]
Andre Sim from the Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR) in Singapore spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Bambu – generating context-aware transcriptomes with Oxford Nanopore long-reads.” What a cool name! Sim explained that RNA sequencing technologies have evolved, but reference annotation for transcript analysis has remained relatively unchanged. Sim noted that fragments could […]



