Steven J. Dunn

The MinION Mk1D is now available to purchase—through Open early access! Already registered your interest? Check your email for more details. Not registered yet? Don’t miss out, be among the first to secure the device. Register here: nanoporetech.com/products/seque…

📢 Introducing our NEW Long-Read Service! 🧬 50X coverage 💷 £85 & volume discounts 🦠 Bacterial DNA extraction & bioinformatics included 🧬 Powered by @nanopore V14 chem & R10.4.1 flow cell 🚀 Find out more microbesng.com/whole-genome-s… #LongReadSequencing youtu.be/jRkSqQcMwTE

@GEMcCallum Ah Greg I’m so sorry you had to go through that (again!). Top job by the surgeon on those stitches though, hope you bounce back stronger than ever!

Not so fun for me but very glad to be home after 7 weeks in hospital following a 14.5 hour heart surgery. Turns out I've had endocarditis for nearly 9 years despite years of antibiotic treatment. Hopefully the surgery and antibiotics this time will clear it 🤞🫀💊

🎄✨ GIVEAWAY TIME! ✨🎄 We're sprinkling a little festive fun! 🧑‍🎄 We want to add some microbial magic to YOUR lab Christmas tree, so we’re gifting one lucky winner a box of 5 @GIANTmicrobes germs in their festive finery! 🎁 Head over to LinkedIn to enter linkedin.com/company/microb…

@LillyCummins_ Well done Lilly! I can’t believe it’s that time already, hope there’s a chapter in there on the optimal methodology for Lilly-sipping.

Thesis submitted! #PhDone

🌟 Exciting Job Opportunities at MicrobesNG!🌟 We're on a mission to advance #MicrobialGenomics and we need a Customer Support Advisor and a Key Account Executive to join our dedicated team! 📍Birmingham, England 🇬🇧 🔧Front End Operations Apply today 👉microbesng.com/careers/

A little bit of unknown MicrobesNG lore on display here... Our logo is designed to look like a key: Unlock your microbial genomes!

If anyone has bacterial strains they want @nanopore data for, drop me a message and I'll see what I can do!

Need to check your #cloning has worked?!?💯✅ PlasmidSeq uses @nanopore long reads to give the sequence of your entire #plasmid⭕️for just £10 ex VAT, all you need to do is send us a mini-prep!🎉🤩 #MolecularBiology #PlasmidSequencing plasmidsng.com

We can't wait to see you all at our POP UP event in Manchester! #MNGPopUp We have some fantastic speakers lined up & @StevenJDunn and @Helen_McNeil_ will be on hand to answer questions & tell you about our NEW long read service launching soon⚡️⚡️⚡️ @nanopore #microbialgenomics

Microbial genomics meeting in Manchester, coming up on August 3rd 🦠 Schedule up, and still open for (free!!) registration: linktr.ee/microbesng Looks like a great day for early career microbiologists! Ft. cool talks by @RosieClover4 @willpjsmith @MBottery & more

📢Announcing MicrobesNG POP UP Manchester! A day of microbial genomics fun 3/8/23 @FBMH_UoM ECR's- submit an abstract here linktr.ee/microbesng by 16/6/23⏱️ @MERManchester @OfficialUoM Want to know more🤔 See highlights from our Bham event youtube.com/watch?v=TeKs05…

Worth considering that by pegging coverage on duration of run, earlier readsets will have a lower N50. I'd highly recommend Rasusa for random subsampling, which from testing doesn't bias read length distribution. github.com/mbhall88/rasusa

We’re hiring! Feel free to drop me a line with any Q’s.

Small update to my blog post on @nanopore R10.4.1 accuracy: rrwick.github.io/2023/05/05/ont… @scientist_me asked if I tried Flye assembles, and while I hadn't, I thought it was a good idea. So I've now added Flye and Canu assemblies to the results. (1/4)

@rrwick I wonder if part of the Canu edge is its use of read correction/trimming/downsampling? Be interested to see how Flye performs on the Canu-corrected reads, and if that improves Medaka polishing given the training set is based on Flye assemblies.

I was a little surprised to see that Canu produced better assemblies than Flye for 4/5 genomes. I still like Flye a lot (it's faster, easier to run, produces an assembly graph), but I'll be using Canu more going forward. (4/4)

@lizzy_darby Maybe an UpSet plot? upset.app

#dataviz question… I’d like to show MIC values, SNP/mutation info and relate this back to 24 strains from 4 different populations (independent experiments). Does anyone know of a nice way to put all of this together?🫠

@WvSchaik @GEMcCallum @IMIBirmingham @jpjhall @LivUni Hope he gave you one of those T-shirts too! Congrats @GEMcCallum - best of luck with the move.

Have you read our latest blog by @hannahpugh? She takes us behind the scenes of her research 'E. coli ST11 (O157:H7) does not encode a functional AcrF efflux pump', published in microbiology and led by @JessicaMABlair. Read it on our website here 👉microb.io/3V8NrDP