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Unlocking Knowledge Extraction with KBase

I didn’t know KBase could be used for knowledge extraction from literature! Tonight I watched the session by Shinjae Yoo from Brookhaven National Laboratory titled “Knowledge extraction from literature.” This was part of the KBase Science Session: Data integration to support (or refute) predictions I started watching yesterday. The primary focus of this study was […]
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Understanding the MinION Mk1D: Innovations for Microbiology

Tonight, I continued watching the session on the MinION Mk1D. The second speaker of the webinar was James Platt, the Director of Sequencing Platforms with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). They described the details of the MinION’s history. The Mk1D was rebuilt, including USB-C connectivity, Peltier module temperature control, and LED run status indicators. A comparison of the Mk1B […]
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Oxford Nanopore’s Dorado: Key Features and Enhancements Explained

Mike Vella, Senior Director of Machine Learning for Oxford Nanopore Technologies, provided an update on Dorado at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston. Vella explained that Dorado “powers Nanopore base-calling” by converting the raw signals into sequences. Stand-alone Dorado is a command-line tool. Dorado is also integrated into MinKNOW. Vella announced that among the updates, […]
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NCM 2022 Update

To end the series of YouTube videos from the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022, I watched the one hour session. Rosemary started by speaking about the vision of sequencing everywhere and the technology. They spoke about supporting R9 chemistry until the end of 2023. Kit 12 was discontinued. Kit 14 will be the one used used […]
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The Stitched (OER)

Sewing and OER? That was the name of the Open Ed 2021 session that we watched tonight. Presented by Heather Clark, faculty at the Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Catherine Hay, this ten-minute session shared several resources. They teach fashion and talked about their project “stitched.” The presentation used a nice […]
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Updating Metadata Vocabulary for Inclusion and Equity

Today we spent most of the day cleaning and doing chores… and some reorganizing of freezers in the lab due to a power outage! The Open Ed 2021 session we watched tonight was entitled “Creating an Inclusive Subject Vocabulary to Describe Humanities Resources” presented by Sarah Harris an Associate Librarian at the National Humanities Center. […]
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