Our manuscript comparing Nanopore vs. Illumina reads for population-level variant calling and genotyping is now out: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... . This work was led by Andrea Schiffer and @arftrhmn.bsky.social.

📢 Save the Date! The 2nd Nanopore Users Day will take place 🗓️10 March 2026 at the Duclaux Amphitheater, Institut Pasteur (Paris). This edition will be open to external participants! 👉 More details and registration info coming soon! @chloebaum.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @nanoporetech.com

Countering illegal wildlife trade needs rapid, reliable species ID in places such as airports. This study describes VeRIF-ID, a portable nanopore DNA method that identifies vertebrate species on-site with >91 % accuracy, offering a fast, low-cost tool against trafficking.

See how researchers are detecting species in real time using portable Oxford Nanopore sequencing. Learn best practices for eDNA collection to uncover hidden communities — without the need for observation. Join our live webinar tomorrow. https://bit.ly/47RharD

A streamlined nanopore-compatible 5PSeq protocol for rapid phenotypic antimicrobial sensitivity testing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687992v1

Join the Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Symposium at Life Sciences SR1 on 20 Nov 2025 (10:00–15:00). Talks, networking, free pilot project contest & lunch. Hosted by @cgr-uol.bsky.social Register: nanoporetech.swoogo.com/Nanopore_X_L...

RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !) With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :) calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg... CET: 14:00–15:00, Format: 30 min + 30 min

Identification of Capture Phases in Nanopore Protein Sequencing... arxiv.org/abs/2511.0... --- #proteomics #prot-preprint

Establishing benchmarks for quantitative mapping of m6A by Nanopore Direct RNA Sequencing doi.org/10.1101/2025...

“MARTi has its origins in software we developed for really rapid identification of #pathogens in preterm infants, but we’ve since adapted it to use in a wide range of settings...including in agriculture, and biosurveillance..." A powerful new tool for real-time analysis of #nanopore #metagenomics 👇

Upcoming seminar by Ali HAMRAOUI: Les approches bioinformatiques pour l’etude des isoformes en transcriptomique cellule unique couplee au sequencage Nanopore at IBENS, Thursday 06 November 2025 at 14:00. More info

Join us next week for "Transforming Tumor Methylation Profiling with Oxford Nanopore Direct DNA Sequencing" on October 28, 2025. Click here to learn more and register today: buff.ly/Oxz6OQh

Sampled the Winogradsky column today in 6 places and extracted DNA. Looking forward to seeing how much DNA we extracted and Nanopore 16S metabarcoding on Friday.

A new study in @plosone.org finds portable nanopore eDNA sequencing recovers comparable biodiversity signals to Illumina in resource-limited settings, increasing accessibility for biodiversity monitoring. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

My lightning talk on “Uncovering Genomic Diversity in the African Diaspora via Long-Read Nanopore Sequencing” will be presented at 1:45 PM in Room 206AB (Level 2). #ASHG25

Validation of High-throughput Oxford Nanopore Technology for HIV-1 Transmitted/Founder Virus Identification https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41109409/

Our abstract submissions for London Calling 2026 are now open! If you’ve been using Oxford Nanopore technology to power the bigger and bolder research questions, we want to hear about it. Submit your abstract here: nanoporetech.com/about/events... #nanoporeconf

📣New from Wang & colleagues! 📑Fine Mapping Regulatory Variants by Characterizing Native CpG Methylation with Nanopore Long-Read Sequencing 👉 bit.ly/4o8qMoY

New paper from our ultra-rapid WGS project published @ejhg-journal.bsky.social : "Nanopore long-read sequencing for the critically ill facilitates ultrarapid diagnostics and urgent clinical decision making" #raredisease #WGS @nanoporetech.com @erasmusmc.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2️⃣ 4️⃣ hours left until our microbial amplicon barcoding webinar! Learn how to sequence full length 16S and ITS genes with Oxford Nanopore's latest kit. Recordings also sent out after signup. nanoporetech.com/about/events... #16S #ITS #metagenomics #metabarcoding

Hope you had a chance to chat with Max at @nanoporetech.com Biopharma Day Philadelphia. We had a great time discussing: - Plasmid EZ: Easy as 1, 2, 3 - Nanopore Technology Applications at Azenta Life Sciences - Benefits of mixed platform multiomics #BiopharmaDay #Nanopore #NGS #ONT

"near-complete de novo assembly of chromosomes and plasmids by long-read nanopore sequencing allowed for high-resolution strain identification, plasmid profiling, and antibiotic resistance gene detection" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #AMR #Nanopore #PublicHealth #GenomicSurveillance

Cool talk on microbial isolation and metagenomics at Kalk Bay in S. Africa, to screen previously uncharacterised genomes to search for novel antimicrobial compounds 📺 You can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5cQ... #LongReads #AMR #antimicrobial #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore

Just under 6 weeks until the metagenomic virus discovery workshop kicks off in Stellenbosch, South Africa. We're excited to be bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and teachers with expertise in all aspects of virus discovery from around the world.

New TB genomics study! Culture-free Mycobacterium tuberculosis WGS using nanopore sequencing directly from sputum. Faster, simpler, and actionable for public health. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678181v1 #NanoporeSequencing #Genomics #TB

We examined Oxford Nanopore 16S amplicon sequencing as a tool for recovering marine microbial communities and we are pleased with the results! Check out our preprint 🌎🧪🧬🌊🖥️🦠https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.676612v2.abstract

16S rRNA gene and rpoB Nanopore Sequencing for Bacterial Detection and Identification in Clinical Samples https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.25336965v1

Webinar: Squiggles to the Rescue: Nanopore Sequencing and AI for Rapid One Health Surveillance Join us as Dr. Lara Urban explores how nanopore sequencing and AI can empower rapid One Health strategies. Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, 11:00 AM PT Register Now: www.zymoresearch.com/pages/squigg...

Limited places now remaining for our #nanopore #metagenomics workshop! buff.ly/tCB0Zeu #MAGS #nanopore #eDNA 🧬💻

(For people who don’t know - I’m a long established consultant to Oxford Nanopore and a shareholder. No company vets my social media posts)

To summarise our recent pre-print: Autocycler, the automated consensus assembler, when used with Nanopore long-read only Enterobacterales assemblies, produces more complete chromosomes and plasmids, with an accuracy comparable to hybrid assemblies.

🚀 We’ve just kicked off the 4th edition of our Genome Assembly course with the fantastic team at @nanoporetech.com For the next few days, participants from all over the world will dive into the latest strategies, tools, and hands-on practice for assembling and polishing genomes with #Nanopore data🧬

💬 "This course provided me great detail of general aspects that are crucial to understanding #metagenomics covering technical aspects of the use of #ONT platform and interface." Keen to learn about lab and in-field @nanoporetech.com metagenomics? 👉 buff.ly/tCB0Zeu #MAGS #nanopore #eDNA 🧬💻

You can't just pull data out of thin air. Or can you...? That's exactly what Craine et al. did in Panama, through air sampling and airDNA metabarcoding, detecting ~1800 arthropod and vertebrate OTUs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #nanopore #airsampling #metabarcoding #biodiversity

TIL about endofungal bacteria! Mycetohabitans spp. are bacterial endosymbionts of the fungus Rhizopus microsporus. Abbot et al. assembled 28 complete genomes including chromosomes, chromids and mobilome-rich plasmids. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #nanopore #plasmidsaurus

Interested in @nanoporetech.com for #metagenomics? Register for our January workshop which will guide you through the #nanopore metagenomics workflow from sample through to analysis. buff.ly/VfiprRP 🖥️ 🧬 #MAGs #MicroSky

This new paper from @ukhsa.bsky.social scientists including @smhopkins.bsky.social and @cstewartb.bsky.social - and @ox.ac.uk academics like @samlipworth.bsky.social - looks at possible improvements to pathogen surveillance through the use of Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

Join our #nanopore #metagenomics course to learn more about different approaches to sample preparation and options for comprehensive and rapid data analysis. buff.ly/hOI2AfN @nanoporetech.com @richardmleggett.bsky.social

💧🌊 What happens when freshwater bacteria meet their salty counterparts? Our new preprint explores the ecological factors driving community coalescence 👉https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675091v1 @bedutilh.bsky.social @microverse.bsky.social

At the Nucleic Acid Observatory, we usually rely on Illumina technology for wastewater viral sequencing. Recently we benchmarked different Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflows. In a new post, we examine these workflows in detail and explain why one emerges as our top choice.

Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler! Nanopore's getting accurate, but 1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies? 2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them? with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social 1 / N

#Nanopore #metagenomics reveals the hidden microbial & resistance landscape of hospital-acquired pneumonia, from overlooked fungi to previously unknown #AMR reservoirs. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Another study showing that Oxford Nanopore beats short reads in genus-level 16S rRNA taxonomy accuracy. Database choice matters even more than platform. Long reads + smart pipelines = better microbial profiling. 🔗 buff.ly/m28Tu7q #Microbiome #Nanopore #16S #Metagenomics

🦠 New #nanopore open dataset alert! ⚡ Rapid mNGS for pathogen surveillance (bacteria, fungi, viruses). Check it out 👉 epi2me.nanoporetech.com/pathogen_surveillance_2025.09

#Oropouche virus news!! @ukhsa.bsky.social has mapped the evidence for Oropouche virus epidemiology, vectors and ecology, virology, pathogenesis, medical countermeasures and public health: www.gov.uk/government/p... An incredibly useful resource to guide future research and funding

A Clade IIb, lineage A.2.2 mpox virus was detected for the first time in Conakry, Guinee, highlighting the continued evolution and spread of Clade IIa viruses in West Africa. #nanopore #mpox #CERFIG virological.org/t/detection-...

"Continental-scale genomic surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum malaria with rapid nanopore sequencing". A low-cost (<$25/sample), rapid (~5 hours), and portable assay, enabling on-site sequencing & analysis in resource-limited settings, without the need for internet connectivity. buff.ly/yxNIzCD

A recent study reconstructed the spatiotemporal spread of the North American Influenza A (H5N1) outbreak, sequencing ~3,000 H5N1 genomes from birds and mammals across Canada and the US with real-time, field-deployable nanopore sequencing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #H5N1 #influenza #Nanopore

A deep amplicon sequencing approach for detection of filarial nematodes in mosquitoes. This paper also discusses potential applications as a molecular xenomonitoring tool for public health and veterinary medicine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #nanopore #pathogensurveillance #filariasis #NTD