Tonight, I watched a session on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics methods. The Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) introduction highlighted how adding more cells increases resolution, yet short-read approaches have limits. Emphasizing the tagline “What’s missing matters,” the speaker noted that isoform switching is important to identify. The ONT specialist explained several solutions compatible with ONT, including […]
Rui Chen from Baylor College of Medicine presented at London Calling 2024 a session titled “Single-cell characterization of transcript isoforms with long-read RNA sequencing.” Their lab is interested in the retina since it is “the main target of irreversible blinding diseases.” In mice, there are over one hundred cell subtypes in the retina, noted Chen. […]
Mike Clark from the University of Melbourne in Australia presented at London Calling 2019 on “Deep transcriptomic sampling with long-read single cell RNA sequencing.” Clark gave the first talk in the session and explained the power of expression profiles of single cells (scRNA-seq) to identify cell types and variations in gene expression. scRNA-seq can be […]
Michael Clark from The University of Melbourne in Australia presented at London Calling 2023 the session entitled “Investigating RNA isoform expression using the IsoMix toolkit.” They have created tools for RNA isoform analyses. Clark shared an example of a human gene expressed in multiple RNA isoforms. They explained that alternative isoforms can create RNAs and […]





