Building An Interferometer With LEGO: hackaday.com/2025/02/28/b...

Excellently led by Mia Berelson.

🆕 Registration has is open for our training course '#Nanopore #Metagenomics: from sample to analysis. The course provides a thorough overview of lab and in-field, real-time @nanoporetech.com #sequencing, including DNA extraction, library preparation, and data analysis and visualisation. 🖥️ 🧬

A few places remaining for EI's latest "Nanopore metagenomics: from sample to analysis" course, running 8-9 July 2025. Will hopefully be a good introduction to wet lab and bioinformatics, plus the opportunity to discuss your projects. @nanoporetech.com www.earlham.ac.uk/events/nanop...

At the Earlham Institute, we develop tools that help researchers share, access, and use large #genomic datasets. 🖥️🧬 One of those is Grassroots Genomics - an open-source platform supporting the plant genomic community. #FAIRdata #OpenScience ➡️ buff.ly/CRUNCDr @richardmleggett.bsky.social

Keen to understand more about #Nanopore #metagenomics? Join our course in July for hands-on training covering experimental methods, sample collection, #DNA extraction and library preparation. buff.ly/jX87IHb @richardmleggett.bsky.social

Great talk at #CMINorwich25 from Mia Berelson on sequencing fungal pathogens from the air using AirSeq @richardmleggett.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

It’s nice to be attending the first annual conference of the Centre for Microbial Interactions, to which I am affiliated. So many Norwich researchers are involved in this great initiative. Also amused to discover my new Spanish naming on the name badge! #cminorwich25 @norwichmicro.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest paper led by Will Boulton just out in 'Scientific Data'. Significant effort including #Alfred-Wegener-Institute, @jgi.doe.gov, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social ++ Metagenome-assembled-genomes recovered from the #Arctic drift expedition #MOSAiC www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're really excited to be part of Norwich Science Festival next month! Thanks to our PhD intern @rapher97.bsky.social we're running a poster trail around Norwich city centre from 1-22 February and an interactive stand at The Forum on 21 February: norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/mar...

For a slightly more sober analysis of Nvidia's new Project Digits "super" personal computer, see this great article at @theregister.com www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/n...

New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc... (1/5)

It certainly is! But there is even more to it than scientists and data centres! 😃 🧬🔬🥼

Do get in contact with me, or even better, Simon Tyrrell (not of this platform) if you want to know more!

Excited to join the #Nanopore Community on BlueSky. Follow us for the latest updates and discussions about Oxford Nanopore and Nanopore Community. #WYMM

And support to deposit long read technology data was added relatively recently!

I would guess deposits at SRA are typically delayed 1-many years from start of work, so not so much the state of sequencing in 2024, but fascinating figure nonetheless!

Exciting news! The latest hifiasm release from Haoyu Cheng and Heng Li adds beta support for @nanoporetech.com simplex R10 reads. Initial results look very promising. 🚀 Check it out: github.com/chhylp123/hi...

If you haven't seen this, an interesting analysis (uk based) peerj.com/articles/989/

Dear @pnas.org , I strongly disagree. I believe that in the current funding environment, caps to individual labs and PIs are and would be absolutely crucial for sustaining scientific innovation. Would you consider a counter opinion piece? Who’d be interested in writing one with me?

Align to AllTheBacteria with low RAM (1-2Gb) and quickly (seconds if just 1000s of hits, 15 mins for a gene present in all 2.4 million genomes) using @shenwei356.bsky.social Lexicmap. So you can basically BLAST AllTheBacteria locally - but need 3-4Tb disk for index www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A great thread for people looking to jump start their timelines in bio/informatics @richardmleggett.bsky.social

Someone please tell Illumina and Oxford Nanopore that @pacbio.bsky.social beat them here and now has first mover advantage on the BlueSky app... And now for a required IT Crowd gif