workflows

Optimizing Cell & Gene Therapies with Multi-Omic Sequencing

Heather Stark, the Global Segment Manager at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, introduced the webinar “Enhancing Cell and Gene Therapy Success with Multi-Omic Sequencing: The Oxford Nanopore Advantage.” Start covers biopharma and explained how nanopore sequencing works. They explained that there are several end-to-end workflows for synthetic biology, including plasmid, AAV, amplicon, and mRNA IVT sequencing. Clark […]
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Understanding Copy Number Variations in Intraoperative Brain Tumor Detection

Chun-Chieh Lin from Dartmouth Health spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston on “Nanopore-based random genomic sampling for intraoperative diagnosis of brain tumors and beyond.” They focused on copy number and methylation alterations. Lin explained that copy number variation (CNV) is a common variant. Current approaches are karyotyping and comparative genomic hybridization, targeted with […]
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Exploring EPI2ME: Bioinformatics for Genomic Characterization

Tonight, I continued watching the ONT webinar I started last night, which focused on scalable human genomic characterization with nanopore sequencing. The second speaker was Anthony Doran, Associate Director of Bioinformatics Field Applications with Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Doran’s session was titled “Bioinformatics from beginner to production: EPI2ME, Oxford Nanopore’s data analysis platform.” ONT’s theme this […]
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Understanding Human Variation and Cancer Genomics via EPI2ME

I started watching a core webinar from Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) tonight. Nick Sisneros from ONT facilitated the presentation. The topic was scalable human genomic characterization with nanopore. The first presentation was by Philipp Rescheneder, Senior Director of Applications Bioinformatics at ONT. They described three end-to-end workflows using EPI2ME: the human variation, cancer genomics, and […]
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Nanopore Sequencing: Experiment Planning and Workflow Breakdown

As we prepare for the start of a new semester, I decided to watch a Masterclass from London Calling 2024. Akelia Wauchope-Odumbo, Associate Director Technical Applications—Americas with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, presented on experimental design. The session title was “How to get started with nanopore sequencing and plan your experiment.” The masterclass series guides users from “sample to […]
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Enhanced Clinical Data Analysis with Integrated EPI2ME and MinKNOW

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 session about EPI2ME workflows. The title was “Product demo: Integrated EPI2ME: streamlined analysis for clinical and biopharma applications.” Matt Parker from ONT is a clinical scientist. They spoke about AmPORE-TB, human variation workflows, and mRNA vaccine quality control. The tuberculosis workflow aims to rapidly identify antimicrobial resistance in […]
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EPI2ME Everywhere: New Workflows and Cloud Integration

We have been using EPI2ME a lot lately and want to learn more about the new features. Tonight, I watched Sirisha Hesketh, Clinical Bioinformatician from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, present “EPI2ME everywhere” at London Calling 2024. They began with an overview of the workflows available: seventeen ranging from base calling and alignment to single-cell genomics. An […]
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Real-Time Analysis Challenges and RT-Metagenomics Workflow Demo

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 EPI2ME Product Demo. The session title is: “EPI2ME: democratising bioinformatics – from point-and-click analysis to custom integrations.” Sarah Griffiths, ONT Bioinformatics Workflow Developer, gave an overview of the EPI2ME workflows. The workflows use Nexflow and containers. At the time of recording, they had seventeen workflows. Griffiths noted that […]
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User-friendly Computational Workflows

Tonight I watched the EPI2ME updates from Matt Parker, Associate Director of Clinical Bioinformatics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. We will use EPI2ME next week as part of the Portable Genome Sequencing course, focusing on bacterial genome assembly and metagenomics. This Nanopore Community Meeting Houston update started with a high-energy EPI2ME video highlighting updates to compute […]
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Overview of EPI2ME Labs Workflows

The Nanopore Learning course on Human Genome Sequencing and Analysis had a short video introducing the EPI2ME Labs workflows. Anthony Doran, a Technical Applications Scientist in Bioinformatics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, spoke about the bioinformatics workflows available in EPI2ME Labs. Workflows were defined as multistep pipelines that may include many software and files at different […]
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