Bento Lab 🧬
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We make Bento Lab = a portable PCR workstation for scientists and educators. Tweets about methods, field sequencing and DNA barcoding
Genome sequencing goes off-grid! 🚐🧬 Researchers from Johns Hopkins successfully sequenced the Red Coachwhip snake (Masticophis flagellum piceus) genome using a mobile lab in a camper van. Using a ONT Nanopore P2 Solo sequencing and Bento Lab, they show that genomes can be assembled at relatively low cost and without the need for a large laboratory! 🐍 Nuclear & mitochondrial genomes of Masticophis flagellum piceus sequenced 🐍 BUSCO completeness score better than most current snake genomes 🐍 All work done in field- or field-simulated settings A great step toward decentralising and democratizing genomics, especially for research in remote locations! You can read the article here: Scott & Mohr (2026). A Nanopore-Only Assembly of a Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome of a Red Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum piceus). Genes, 17(3), 307. doi.org/10.3390/genes1… Images copyright Alan F. Scott.
Genome sequencing goes off-grid! 🚐🧬 Researchers from Johns Hopkins successfully sequenced the Red Coachwhip snake (Masticophis flagellum piceus) genome using a mobile lab in a camper van. Using a ONT Nanopore P2 Solo sequencing and Bento Lab, they show that genomes can be assembled at relatively low cost and without the need for a large laboratory! 🐍 Nuclear & mitochondrial genomes of Masticophis flagellum piceus sequenced 🐍 BUSCO completeness score better than most current snake genomes 🐍 All work done in field- or field-simulated settings A great step toward decentralising and democratizing genomics, especially for research in remote locations! You can read the article here: Scott & Mohr (2026). A Nanopore-Only Assembly of a Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome of a Red Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum piceus). Genes, 17(3), 307. doi.org/10.3390/genes1… Images copyright Alan F. Scott.
Genome sequencing goes off-grid! 🚐🧬 Researchers from Johns Hopkins successfully sequenced the Red Coachwhip snake (Masticophis flagellum piceus) genome using a mobile lab in a camper van. Using a ONT Nanopore P2 Solo sequencing and Bento Lab, they show that genomes can be assembled at relatively low cost and without the need for a large laboratory! 🐍 Nuclear & mitochondrial genomes of Masticophis flagellum piceus sequenced 🐍 BUSCO completeness score better than most current snake genomes 🐍 All work done in field- or field-simulated settings A great step toward decentralising and democratizing genomics, especially for research in remote locations! You can read the article here: Scott & Mohr (2026). A Nanopore-Only Assembly of a Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome of a Red Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum piceus). Genes, 17(3), 307. doi.org/10.3390/genes1… Images copyright Alan F. Scott.
Genome sequencing goes off-grid! 🚐🧬 Researchers from Johns Hopkins successfully sequenced the Red Coachwhip snake (Masticophis flagellum piceus) genome using a mobile lab in a camper van. Using a ONT Nanopore P2 Solo sequencing and Bento Lab, they show that genomes can be assembled at relatively low cost and without the need for a large laboratory! 🐍 Nuclear & mitochondrial genomes of Masticophis flagellum piceus sequenced 🐍 BUSCO completeness score better than most current snake genomes 🐍 All work done in field- or field-simulated settings A great step toward decentralising and democratizing genomics, especially for research in remote locations! You can read the article here: Scott & Mohr (2026). A Nanopore-Only Assembly of a Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome of a Red Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum piceus). Genes, 17(3), 307. doi.org/10.3390/genes1… Images copyright Alan F. Scott.
3月8日(日曜)にDNAの実験体験が出来るイベントを開催します。申込は2月17日から2月25日までです。詳細は下記リンクをご確認ください。 イベント名「鳥のDNA分析入門 ―DNAで鳥の性別を調べてみよう―」3月8日（日曜）13時00分～16時00分 city.abiko.chiba.jp/bird-mus/gyoji…
In partnership with #INSAPT and the #PNLP_Tchad, hosted by #LaBiEp, we went from parasites to policy with participants from all over the country, many learning molecular methods for the first time! Celebrating the team's hard work connecting science & society to defeat malaria!
We recently deployed our favorite “lab in a suitcase” dynamic duo of #BentoLab and ONT #MinION to conduct real-time, in country multiplexed modular malaria amplicon sequencing by #MAD4HatTeR to inform public health policy decisions in Chad! #DecentralizedGenomicSurveillance
