SEQanswers - Webinar Series https://www.seqanswers.com/ Upcoming and on-demand webinars by SEQanswers and its partners. en Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:11:10 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.seqanswers.com/images/misc/rss.png SEQanswers - Webinar Series https://www.seqanswers.com/ Turning NGS Data into Confident Pathogen Detection https://www.seqanswers.com/forum/site-news/webinar-series/327707-turning-ngs-data-into-confident-pathogen-detection Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:37:21 GMT Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is changing how clinical and public health laboratories detect pathogens, track antimicrobial resistance, and... This webinar will explain the basics of NGS analysis and show how to build a sequencing workflow in a clinical lab, including how to set thresholds for reporting positive detections

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is changing how clinical and public health laboratories detect pathogens, track antimicrobial resistance, and respond to outbreaks. However, transforming raw sequencing reads into actionable results is a challenge. Scientists in clinical and public health laboratories need a clear analysis process, an understanding of the quality metrics behind each call, and defined criteria for deciding when a detection counts as positive. Without these, sequencing data can be hard to interpret and turn into a validated clinical workflow.

In this webinar brought to you by BugSeq, Jose Alexander from AdventHealth will explain the basics of NGS analysis and show how to build a sequencing workflow in a clinical lab, including how to set thresholds for reporting positive detections. Jennifer Laplante from the New York State Department of Health will share how her team approaches viral sequencing in a public health setting. To close, Sherif Nour will demo BugSeq's fully automated, cloud-based bioinformatics platform, which analyzes DNA and RNA sequencing data within hours, and show where it fits in an efficient lab workflow.

Topics to be covered:

• The basic principles and key metrics behind NGS data analysis evolutionary insights to clinical applications
• How to set up a lab process that takes NGS data from sequencing through analysis
• How to set threshold criteria for calling positive detections with confidence
• How viral sequencing supports public health surveillance
• How automated, cloud-based bioinformatics can make clinical and public health sequencing workflows faster and simpler

Who should attend:

• Clinical microbiologists and medical microbiologists
• Clinical and public health laboratory directors and managers
• Public health laboratory scientists and epidemiologists working on pathogen surveillance
• Medical technologists and clinical laboratory scientists who are moving into sequencing
• Bioinformaticians who support clinical or public health sequencing workflows
• Infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship professionals who use sequencing data
• Labs that are evaluating or starting to adopt NGS for pathogen detection

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]]> Webinar Series SEQadmin2 https://www.seqanswers.com/forum/site-news/webinar-series/327707-turning-ngs-data-into-confident-pathogen-detection Decoding the Genomics of Neurodegeneration with Large-Scale Long-Read Sequencing https://www.seqanswers.com/forum/site-news/webinar-series/327704-decoding-the-genomics-of-neurodegeneration-with-large-scale-long-read-sequencing Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:06:10 GMT
This webinar will present discoveries of AD/ADRD-relevant mutations made possible by long-read sequencing


Much of the genetic basis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) is still unexplained, and some of the answers may sit in parts of the genome that standard sequencing cannot read. Short-read sequencing often fails to resolve large structural variants, repeat expansions, and complex genomic regions, so variants that could drive disease go undetected. To close this gap, researchers at the NIH Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias (CARD) have built one of the largest long-read whole-genome sequencing resources in human brain tissue.

In this webinar, brought to you by Oxford Nanopore, Kimberley Billingsley, the head of the Translational Neurogenomics Group at CARD, will present discoveries of AD/ADRD-relevant mutations made possible by long-read sequencing. She will cover how haplotype-resolved methylation at key loci such as APOE points to new layers of epigenetic regulation and how the team extended this work to long-read RNA sequencing of brain tissue, which enables isoform-level transcriptomic analysis alongside the genomic and epigenetic data.

Topics to be covered:
  • How a large-scale long-read whole-genome sequencing resource was built across multiple postmortem brain cohorts
  • How long reads reveal structural variants and repeat expansions linked to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
  • What haplotype-specific methylation at loci such as APOE shows about epigenetic regulation that short reads can't reach
  • How long-read RNA sequencing adds isoform-resolved transcriptomic data to genomic and epigenetic analyses of the brain
  • An introduction to Oxford Nanopore by Walaa Mohamed
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