WEBINAR REGISTRATION: Nanopore Sequencing: Driving Research Insights from Neonatal Intensive Care to Cancer Date: Thursday, November 09, 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Duration: 1 hour Long-read nanopore sequencing has the potential to improve both the speed and yield of genetic characterization and information. In this webinar, Steven Jones from the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre will discuss the benefits of long-read nanopore sequencing for a range of research applications. His presentation will cover how: Long reads can more accurately discover and define large-scale structural variation, and the alignment of long reads can provide a more accurate assessment of regions that are highly repetitive and duplicated; Using epigenomic signals associated with sequencing data can help confirm the pathogenicity for variants initially determined to be of unknown significance, thereby improving time to results, and potentially diagnosis; Detection of phased methylation can determine imprinted regions, and coupling this information with long-range haplotyping allows assignment of parental origin of all human autosomes, which could significantly increase the speed and reduce the cost of hereditary cancer testing. https://lnkd.in/g5ihb9ui
