Beware of confounding basecaller versions
<p>Of course, having a newer version of the nanopore base caller will have some impact. The accuracy obviously constantly improves, and in long-running projects like ours, we now have samples with Gup...
Introducing Cramino: a *fast* QC tool
<p>I am releasing <a href="https://github.com/wdecoster/cramino">Cramino</a> today, my first Rust experience. Cramino is a faster replacement for NanoStat, and extracts features from cram and bam file...
Proteomics in Proximity: Co-Hosting a New Podcast
Do you listen to podcasts? Would you be interested in learning about how Olink Proteomics’ technology is applied in biomarker discovery, drug discovery, proteogenomics, and routine research into...
Discovery of a novel mechanism unique to severe COVID leads to a potential treatment
In a large meta-analysis, circulating protein levels of severe COVID patients along with many thousands of genomic datasets leads to an exciting discovery: a mutation in a gene called FAS that turns i...
A 2022 NGS Cost and Throughput Comparison
With Singular Genomics announcing the new G4 system at the end of 2021, and Element Biosciences announcing the AVITI system in March 2022, here is a look at the existing state-of-the-art systems in a ...