Rachael Workman presented her recent work using PacBio’s RNA sequencing pipeline (IsoSeq) for de novo transcriptome sequencing of the ruby-throated hummingbird in Baltimore on June 8th. Here (Workman_isoseq_PUGM2) is a… Read more »
Stephanie Hao presented her recent work on using nanopore sequencing for infectious disease diagnosis and characterization at the Oxford Nanopore user group meeting (London Calling) in London on May 26th…. Read more »
Alexis was highlighted for our paper on structural variation detection with nanopores (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15384047.2016.1139236). ASHG link here: http://www.ashg.org/education/PaperSpotlight_Norris.shtml
Let’s all congratulate Rachael – she won the rookie of the year award given by the Whiting School of Engineering for her awesome work over the past year in lab.
https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing-technology/nanopore-sequencing-identifies-methylation-marks-help-new-statistical-methods
We just put up our preprint (w/ Jared Simpson at OICR) of our work to use the MinION to call methylation – see here: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/04/047142 We’re submitting it for peer… Read more »
Our grant, headed by Ken Welch (UToronto) was awarded from the Human Frontier Science Program: “Optimization of metabolic flux in the hummingbird: from enzymes to ecology”. Our part in the… Read more »
At Cancer Biology and Therapy (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/kcbt20) – congrats to Yunfan and Rachael for all their hard work, as well as our collaborators Jim and Alexis.
Discussed as part of a larger survey trying to examine methods to profile DNA methylation: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v13/n2/full/nmeth.3736.html