Tonight, I watched Harika Urel from the Helmholtz AI Institute and Technical University of Munich present a five-minute talk at London Calling 2023. The intriguing title of the recording is “Squiggle analysis for metagenomics viability inference.” Urel is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Lara Urban’s lab. I have watched several talks by Urban in the […]
Dan Turner SVP of the Applications Team at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, presented the update from the Apps Team. Turner summarized the use of Nanopore data for clinical whole-genome sequencing of rare diseases and cancer with the goal of identifying relevant variants. Turner explained that although rare diseases are rare by definition, there are over 3,000 […]



