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Warren Bach

@sciencedude.bsky.social

Retired, ex-Nanopore, 30 years supporting genomic technologies in ANZ. Love talking science, fishing, bonsai, cooking and good wine.

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In primary school the ink well in my timber desk (circa 1970) often had a sprig of milk weed + monarch caterpillars, or eucalypt + emperor gum moth caterpillars.

03.09.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿš€ Our new preprint is now live on bioRxiv!
โ€œA systematic benchmark of bioinformatics methods for single-cell and spatial RNA-seq Nanopore long-read dataโ€
๐Ÿ”— Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

๐Ÿ”ฌ About the study
We present the first comprehensive benchmark of bioinformatics tools ๐Ÿ‘‡

30.07.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Long Covid Now Most Common Chronic Health Problem in Children Now that Long Covid has become the most common chronic health condition in children, many more children may require additional support in school.

Now that Long Covid has become the most common chronic health condition in children, many more children may require additional support in school. pizer.law/long-covid-n...

01.07.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats Hasindu and Nanopore Garvan team. This is an exciting development. I remember asking myself how AS might be used when it was first released. You have truely answered this ๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŽ‰

05.04.2025 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sequencing That Stimulates The Sensors - TEDx Presenter's Cut
YouTube video by David Eccles Sequencing That Stimulates The Sensors - TEDx Presenter's Cut

Because I recently stealth-shared this with the nanopore sequencing community, I figured I might as well post this here as well. This is a TEDx talk I gave in 2016, which I believe is the first public on-stage demonstration of nanopore sequencing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQK3...

18.02.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic and well deserved. Build a useful too and let innovators run wild ๐Ÿ˜Ž

16.02.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŒŸ Client Publication Highlight! ๐ŸŒŸ We're proud to share a little summary of a recent study by Furnell et al (2024) who used the Ramaciotti Centre's long read (ONT) sequencing and Sanger sequencing services๐Ÿงฌ

11.02.2025 05:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week, we established a new Grant Programme to support researchers who are pursuing breakthrough science but may lack all the resources to access Oxford #Nanopore sequencing.

Find out more and how you can apply here: register.nanoporetech.com/grants-progr...

#AnythingAnyoneAnywhere

07.02.2025 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Well I wasnโ€™t expecting that! Another amazing application with @nanoporetech.com
I might have to review my personal use of the overused term โ€œMultiomicsโ€ ๐Ÿ˜‰

03.01.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Telomere-to-telomere DNA replication timing profiling using single-molecule sequencing with Nanotiming - Nature Communications Current temporal studies of DNA replication are either complex or low-resolution. Here, the authors introduce Nanotiming, a simple and inexpensive method producing high-resolution, telomere-to-telomer...

NanoTiming is now in Nature Communications! High-resolution DNA replication timing using nanopore sequencing shows that Rif1 regulates only specific telomeres: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

03.01.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Investigating the performance of Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing with respect to Illumina microarrays and short-read sequencing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.19.629409v1

22.12.2024 19:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Researchers using Oxford Nanopore Tech. long-read sequencing effectively identify pathogenic structural variants in the PRKN locus that were missed by conventional methods; They propose that it should be considered for unresolved early onset #Parkinsons cases
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

20.12.2024 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Evaluating data requirements for high-quality haplotype-resolved genomes for creating robust pangenome references - Genome Biology Background Long-read technologies from Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) have transformed genomics research by providing diverse data types like HiFi, Duplex, and ult...

Our hitchhiking paper is out at genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... great collaborative effort with Prasad Sarashetti, @jlipovac.bsky.social, Filip Tomas and JJ Liu.
Briefly, the nanopore is enough for high-quality human genomes. Recently, HERRO showed that even UL is sufficient. 1/3

19.12.2024 07:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Release v0.9.0 ยท nanoporetech/dorado [0.9.0] (16 Dec 2024) This major release of Dorado introduces several new features and enhancements. The polish command, currently experimental, is optimised for refining draft assemblies of human ...

๐ŸŽ„ New Dorado release (v0.9.0) โ€“ and it's big!

๐Ÿš€ Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies โ€“ faster & more accurate than Medaka
โšก Faster modified base calling models
๐Ÿ”ง Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling

github.com/nanoporetech...

17.12.2024 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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17.12.2024 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2024 Top 10 Innovations The latest group of winning technologies has a little something for everyoneโ€”from scientists at the lab bench to those in the clinic and even the classroom.

Itโ€™s incredibly gratifying to see our work on Direct RNA sequencing getting recognised in this way. Congratulations to all the team at @oxfordnanopore.bsky.social who helped us to make it a reality!

www.the-scientist.com/2024-top-10-...

#RNASequencing #Innovation #NanoporeSequencing #RNAResearch

14.12.2024 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We got there in the end ๐Ÿ˜
Thanks for sticking with us ๐Ÿ‘

13.12.2024 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Publication exploring the future potential of nanopore sequencing for clinical use.

What you're missing matters. #WYMM #SwitchON

10.12.2024 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic @rhystwhite.bsky.social
Any @nanoporetech.com users I havenโ€™t met, give me a ๐Ÿ‘‹

06.12.2024 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Guess where I have been this week ?
(Yes they are cheese scones)

04.12.2024 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We are proud to announce a collaboration with UK Biobank to create the worldโ€™s first large-scale #epigenetic dataset of 50k participants. The dataset will unlock crucial insights into how #epigenetics drives disease & the breakthroughs to treat them.

Read more: nanoporetech.com/news/oxford-...

27.11.2024 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 127    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Great, I was starting to feel a little lonely ๐Ÿ˜

22.11.2024 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please register for the course on Transposable elements in #genomics and #datascience. We will be sharing the magic of #nanopore long reads for #transposon expression #tesky

19.11.2024 08:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

My stats have taken a hit as I was closing in on 1000 followers and following, and I am pretty selective ๐Ÿ˜‰
Looking forward to a more wholesome environment.

16.11.2024 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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