Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Director, Devjanee (Devi) Swain Lenz, will be one of the invited panel speakers at the Festival of Genomics and Biodata conference in Boston on October 4-5.

The Festival is the world’s largest open access genomics event and covers a host of topics. There will be 120 sessions with 150 invited speakers and 100 exhibitors. Swain Lenz will be on a panel discussing “The Resolution Revolution: Going Beyond Single-Cell Analysis As You Know It.”

The Sequencing and Genomic Technologies core facility has acquired a new sequencing platform. The llumina NextSeq 1000 produces 100-400 M reads at a variety of read lengths, including 300 bp paired-end reads at a fraction of the price of the NextSeq 500 and MiSeq.

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The Sequencing and Genomic Technologies (SGT) Core Facility recently added an Oxford Nanopore GridION long-read sequencer to its arsenal. The GridION provides cost-effective, ultra-long sequencing reads of hundreds of kilobases to help answer research questions that short read sequencers cannot.