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I was wondering if anyone has actually ever successfully flushed a flow cell. I have tried three or four times and it has always failed. Today, I started with a flow cell that had 1300 pores. I loaded a library. As it turns out, I had made a huge mistake, I made my library without using ligase in the ligation step (I promise this is the first time it happened in very many libraries). IN any case, after about 5 minutes into the run, I realized it was a mess and then also realized my mistake. I thought, no problem, I'll just flush the cell and reload a new library. I flushed the cell, waited 60 minutes, as is required, and checked the flow cell. It had only 580 pores available, so it was not possible to reload it. Really? Don't get me wrong, I love ONT, but I am just baffled at the flushing story....
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The field of immunogenetics explores how genetic variations influence immune responses and susceptibility to disease. In a recent SEQanswers webinar, Oscar Rodriguez, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Louisville, and Ruben Martínez Barricarte, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, shared recent advancements in immunogenetics. This article discusses their research on genetic variation in antibody loci, antibody production processes,...11-06-2024, 07:24 PM -
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) are essential techniques for investigating the genome, transcriptome, and epigenome. In many cases, choosing the appropriate technique is straightforward, but in others, it can be more challenging to determine the most effective option. A simple distinction is that smaller, more focused projects are typically better suited for qPCR, while larger, more complex datasets benefit from NGS. However,...10-18-2024, 07:11 AM
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