Isabel Rodriguez from the National Cancer Institute, USA spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “Analysis of viral and human oncogene expression in human papillomavirus-driven cancer.” Rodriguez shared that human pipillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for almost all cervical cancer cases, the fourth most common cancer worldwide. I also didn’t realize that the incidence is […]
Andre Reis from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “A long-read nanopore sequencing platform for Indigenous genomics.” Their efforts to increase efforts to increase representation of Indigenous people in Australia. Reis spoke about indigenous Australians and the lack of representation in current catalogues. Thus, there […]
Professor Laurent Mesnard from from the Medecine Sorbonne Universite spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 about “Rapid genomic analysis for thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA) diagnosis.” Their approach combined Nanopore adaptive sampling, EPI2ME, and SeqOne approach. They described TMA and the need to detect early. Mesnard explained that the biggest challenge for TMA is early intervention. […]
Yan Yang from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies Technical Services North America West Coast Team, presented the NCM 2022 Masterclass “How to select the right library preparation workflow for your experiment.” Yang explained how Nanopore DNA/RNA sequencing works as the nucleic acid is passed through a nanopore and electrical signals are interpreted into sequence data. Yang […]
“Alpha, Delta, Omicron- Oh My! A SARSCoV2 Genome Alignment Activity to Understand Mutations and COVID” was the creative title of the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight. J. Jordan Steel, an Associate Professor at the US Air Force Academy, was the presenter and shared COVID sequences as handouts for the session. Interestingly, I think […]