Rupesh Kesharwani from the Baylor College of Medicine, HGSC & University of North Texas HSC, presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston on “STRspy 2.0: unlocking the potential of long reads for forensic DNA profiles.” They shared that STRs are short tandem 2-7 bp repeats that account for 3% of the human genome. Individuals have […]
Ira Deveson from The Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Towards comprehensive genetic diagnosis of repeat expansion disorders with targeted nanopore sequencing.” Deveson spoke about the ReadUntil function also known as adaptive sampling to selectively sequence molecules. Short tandem repeats (STRs) are 2-12 bp sequence motifs […]
Courtney Hall from the University of North Texas Health Science Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “STRspy-ing hidden variation in forensic DNA profiles using the MinION device.” Hall spoke about how short tendem repeats (STRs) are often used as the “gold standard for human identification in forensic investigations” due to their variability […]




