The UK biotech sector was in the news yesterday morning with two companies and their COVID tests making headlines: Oxford Nanopore and DNANudge. Both are offering rapid testing for COVID-19 in the NHS and in care homes (where they are desperately needed). There is only […]
For readers of this blog who don’t remember The X-files the reference may be lost on you, but the work published in Genome Research today will not. In Whole-genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with dysplasia Gary Nolan’s group at Stanford report on […]
I recently had a days training at Oxford Nanopore’s labs on their new cDNA-Seq kit and ran the resulting libraries on the GridION (one of the first customers to do so). A lot of people are watching RNA-Seq developments at ONT very closely. The London […]
This is a first for me as I’ve not finished this post at all! Instead I’m going to use this as a space to document my ideas, and experiences, in bringing Oxford Nanopore’s RNA-seq into my core lab at the CRUK Cambridge Institute. I’m hoping […]
Day 2 of London Calling. Keep an eye on Twitter. Watch for more coverage from @Gringer, ONT, NextGenSeek…let me know about other sources and I’ll add them here! ONTs London Calling 2017: Day 1 updates ONTs London Calling 2017: Day 2 updates Keiths OmicsOmics roundup. Gordon’s good morning wake-up […]
When will nanopore sequencing push short-reads (i.e. Illumina) off their pedestal? According to Clive PromethION is the Illumina killer…but this same conversation was going on many times at London Calling. I wanted to highlight two areas that might be about to flip to ONTs advantage […]
I’m excited to be at ONTs London Calling event today and tomorrow. Expect to see lots of coverage on Twitter. Missed the workshop yesterday or want a late preview of what’s coming then head over to Keith’s OmicsOmics blog. Update: coverage from @Gringer, ONT, NextGenSeek (storified […]
Clive Brown presented a webinar on Tuesday with multiple updates on Oxford Nanopore technology, Keith Robison covered them all over at OmicsOmics, but I’ll just be focussing on the launch of GridION X5. If you want to know more about GridION, PromethION, Throughput, 1D^2 Chemistry, Basecalling, the FPGA Basecalling Accelerator, and a […]
Two publications presenting really cool technologies recently caught my attention: “Lego for molecular biology” and “CATCH-Seq: CRISPR for target enrichment sequencing”. Both are technologies I’d like to play with, and my son can join in the Lego modelling if we build some here in Cambridge! Lego […]
Illumina have finally dropped the NeoPrep from their lineup after a short but pretty rocky road. Launched at AGBT15 the instrument promised hassle free library prep automation for users that did not require full 96well plate production-scale solutions. Early access users I spoke to at […]
