Epigenomics and Epigenetics Research
News on epigenetic profiling, DNA methylation, histone modifications, epigenetic disorders in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies, UK Biobank Partner to Build Large-Scale Epigenetic Database
The initiative plans to profile the epigenomes of 50,000 UK Biobank participants, most of them healthy individuals, using nanopore sequencing.
Researchers found DNA methylation shifted in minors exposed to war in a study that included more than 1,500 Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon.
At the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting last week, the company highlighted new spatial transcriptomics and proteomics analysis workflows.
The new chemistry, called Sprq, improves flow cell sample loading and incorporates a new polymerase to augment sequencing yield and reduce per-sample costs.
Long-Read Sequencing Data Analysis Reveals Advanced Cancer Features
Researchers delved into data for 189 tumors sequenced in the "Long-Read Personalized OncoGenomics" project to ID complex structural variants and methylation marks, among other tumor insights.