The Podcast Explain is for everyone interested in DNA/RNA sequencing or technology in general. As Iuliia doesn't have a solid background in sequencing, she keeps asking "simple" - even silly at times - questions and Daniel gives his best to make us understand.
Mixing up long and cheap Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:30 Florians history 00:13:50 Q&A Ressources for Bioinformatics 00:27:00 Long-read-tools.org 00:35:42 ONT || PacBio 00:57:00 Storage 01:09:00 Outro Up-to-date, raw prices: https://albertvilella.substack.com/p/march-2024-ngsspecs-update Dovetail comparing the two long-read technologies: https://dovetailbiopartners.com/2023/08/10/pacbio-vs-nanopore-unraveling-the-sequencing-odyssey-in-life-sciences/ Comparing PacBios old CLRs to ONT: https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/article/12/11/jkac192/6651842?login=true RNA Performance comparison, wonderful read: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.25.550582v1.full.pdf+html Integras 0.02$: https://www.integra-biosciences.com/united-states/en/blog/article/short-read-vs-long-read-sequencing Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903)
Erschienen: 01.08.2024
Dauer: 01:11:56
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Special Episode 4: Long vs Short reads"
Rolling in circles to make DNA yarns Chapters: 59.091494 288.060099 Bioinformatics Upper Crust Tools 113.762865 288.060099 STAR 288.060099 558.377366 MGI 558.871056 698.232632 Advantages of the DNBs/-yarns 699.178454 874.617258 Using basic DNA characteristics 874.180210 1208.599981 MGIs whole-room setup 940.524326 940.524326 Daniels first contact 1208.828290 1570.762497 Brief Market Overview 1361.000594 1361.000594 Short read market 1570.482347 1761.758867 DFG High Costs Sequencing Projects Application 1761.643879 2102.003767 QuickGen: Introns and Exons 2101.734689 2211.591848 Conclusion MGI vs Illumina: https://alitheagenomics.com/blog/how-do-rna-seq-results-compare-between-illumina-and-mgi-sequencing-platforms Rolling the circle: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568012/pdf/nihms894568.pdf MGI vs Illumina legal case: https://www.reuters.com/technology/illumina-ordered-pay-chinese-company-333-million-gene-sequencing-patent-case-2022-05-06/ The basics of MGIs technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gThcHHh4R0w DFG Application: https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2024/ifw-24-30 GTL/WGGC: https://www.gtl.hhu.de/wggc TSM link http://tsm.gtl.hhu.de/ - submit your request and our colleagues will contact you Since 2018, West German Genome Center https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903)
Erschienen: 02.07.2024
Dauer: 00:36:54
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Episode 11: MGI DNA Nanoball sequencing"
Who needs all bases anyway? Chapters: 03:00 Phasing 08:50 not Sequencing, really 14:00 Bionano Saphyr Chip 26:00 Nabsys - going electric 29:30 tools available 39:00 Iuliia does QuickGen: Transposons! Links: Small explainer by CAP: https://www.cap.org/member-resources/articles/optical-genome-mapping-a-tool-with-significant-potential-from-discovery-to-diagnostics What genome mapping can be used for: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/3/398 Finding SVs with genome mapping: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41408-024-01059-x Bionano github repos: https://github.com/search?q=bionano&type=repositories&s=updated&o=desc listen to our podcast and send your feedback to ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). Since 2019, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-cn.de/) – network of NGS core facilities in Germany. The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Multimediazentrum at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://www.mmz.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility ”West German Genome Center” funded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (https://www.mkw.nrw/land-foerdert-spitzenzentrum-fuer-genomsequenzierung-nordrhein-westfalen/).
Erschienen: 27.05.2024
Dauer: 00:48:12
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Episode 10: Genome Mapping"
Chapters: 08:00 Gambling 15:00 Bubbles 30:00 Holes 57:30 One more thing 1:07:00 Finale 1:08:00 Finale of season 1! Eric Chow explaining single cell sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VFNLLQP8c Overview of things to consider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUPKrnRvoQ How to analyze single cell data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HBzgsz8qyk A very good single cell analysis toolkit: https://satijalab.org/seurat/ Explainer for the rough workflow: https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/articles/understanding-single-cell-sequencing-how-it-works-and-its-applications-357578 Quick explainer on single cell sequencing: https://www.the-scientist.com/single-cell-sequencing-in-a-nutshell-71048 A method-overview paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s12276-020-00499-2 Comparing BD Parse and 10xGenomics: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33414681/ Pseudotime analysis: https://bioconductor.org/books/3.14/OSCA.advanced/trajectory-analysis.html Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and send your feedback to ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903). PS: I do not know how in the Parse approach the cells are treated to let the ligase and DNA enter each cell, but do not let RNA flow out of the cell at the same time. -DR
Erschienen: 22.03.2024
Dauer: 01:10:38
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Episode 9: Single Cell Sequencing"
Getting the most out of Machines Chapters: 04:30 PhiX 14:30 low complexity 19:30 UMIs 32:10 FastQC 43:00 MultiQC 56:40 PycoQC PhiX concentrations for loading a validation run: https://knowledge.illumina.com/instrumentation/general/instrumentation-general-reference_material-list/000001536 Dnatech on why UMIs are used: https://dnatech.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/faqs/what-are-umis-and-why-are-they-used-in-high-throughput-sequencing/ BMH learning on UMIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPMsnhIBK0 FastQC for QC of .fastq(.gz) files: https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/ A FastQC report from a „good“ sample: https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/good_sequence_short_fastqc.html multiqc for summarizing QC reports: https://multiqc.info/ UMI-tools for working with UMI data: https://umi-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ pycoQC for Nanopore QC: https://github.com/a-slide/pycoQC Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).
Erschienen: 09.02.2024
Dauer: 01:10:43
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Special Episode 3: PhiX / UMIs / QC"
Pushing spaghetti through holes Chapers: 00:00 Intro 11:15 Measuring Ions 17:00 Quality 23:00 Duplex 24:30 MinION 25:15 PromethION 28:20 Methylation 29:00 Direct RNA sequencing 38:25 Basecalling 46:00 Basecalling bias 53:50 Sequencing proteins - Nanopore explainer: https://nanoporetech.com/applications/dna-nanopore-sequencing - Oxsci explaining the technology: https://oxsci.org/pore-over-this-advances-in-dna-sequencing/ - History of Nanopore: https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/science/summary/nanopore/nanopore-sequencing-makes-it-possible-to-decode-the - Shmou’s Biology explaining Nanopore sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlluAjhzXqI - A direct comparison of Nanopore and Illumina output: https://medresearch.umich.edu/office-research/about-office-research/biomedical-research-core-facilities/advanced-genomics-core/technologies/next-generation-sequencing - A nice Nanopore QC tool we use: https://hpc.nih.gov/apps/pycoQC.html - How a MinION looks like: https://www.whatech.com/og/markets-research/medical/658327-global-nanopore-sequencing-market-2020 Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).
Erschienen: 16.01.2024
Dauer: 00:57:00
Zipping rounds in zeptoliters Chapters: 00:00 Intro 07:00 Laser 09:00 Zeptoliters 13:30 Polymerase speed 19:00 Error rate 22:00 SMRT Cell 25:45 ccs 30:00 Fragment size 34:30 Megaruptor 38:20 Data flow 47:00 SVs 53:00 MAS Seq - Starter: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-021-00824-3 - Karobben on PacBio sequencing: https://karobben.github.io/2023/10/30/Bioinfor/PacBio/ - bioinformticamente explaining the technology: https://bioinformaticamente.com/2020/12/05/pacbio-sequencing/ - Basic Biochem explainer of SMRT sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gUmRf-K1c - Genomics Lab explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRhUSjhygDU - PacBio explaining BAM Tags: https://pacbiofileformats.readthedocs.io/en/13.0/BAM.html - Megaruptor3 explainer (how we make the right sized fragments) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVhqnkQL8zo - How we select the right sized fragments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25C8xfBbq8 Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).
Erschienen: 21.12.2023
Dauer: 00:56:27
Glued DNA bridges and rainbow clusters Chapters: 00:43-Flowcells 03:40-DNA glued to glass 09:00-Bridge amplification 15:50-Cluster density and patterned Flowcells 28:30-Illumina SBS summary 30:30-Limits 33:00-Multiplexing and Demultiplexing - enseqlopedia on patterned vs unpatterned flowcell: http://enseqlopedia.com/2016/01/almost-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-illumina-hiseq-4000-and-some-stuff-you-didnt/ - ClevaLabs on Illumina sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAUtJQ69n8 - Yourgenome on how the Illumina workflow works: https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-the-illumina-method-of-dna-sequencing/ - DNATech comparing Illumina Machines: https://dnatech.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/illumina-high-throughput-sequencing/ - iBiology on sample preparation for Illumina sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwSe09dJX0 - StatQuest on how to use Illumina sequencing for RNA analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlf6wYJrwKY - Illumina Flowcell and sequencing machines pictures: https://www.illumina.com/company/news-center/multimedia-images.html - Nice explainer about paired-end sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVrmfLXJRGM Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and send your feedback to ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903). Clarification: Each Flowcell on the Illumina platform has 1-8 channels, each channel can be filled with multiple different samples - DR
Erschienen: 01.12.2023
Dauer: 00:38:39
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Episode 5: Illumina Sequencing Part II"
Colour mixing in PHRED space Chapters: 00:00 Nucleotides level 2 09:00 Cycles 12:00 Not-so-wobbly mutations 15:30 Reducing colourspace 22:30 Cutting connections 28:14 Costs and PHRED - ClevaLabs on Illumina sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAUtJQ69n8 - Yourgenome on how the Illumina workflow works: https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-the-illumina-method-of-dna-sequencing/ - DNATech comparing Illumina Machines: https://dnatech.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/illumina-high-throughput-sequencing/ - iBiology on sample preparation for Illumina sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwSe09dJX0 - StatQuest on how to use Illumina sequencing for RNA analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlf6wYJrwKY - Illumina Flowcell and sequencing machines pictures: https://www.illumina.com/company/news-center/multimedia-images.html - Nice explainer about paired-end sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVrmfLXJRGM Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and send your feedback to ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903). CORRECTION: On the Illumina 1-channel chemistry, one base signal gets added, one removed at the enzymatic step: so that's one signal that stays, one that disappears, one that comes to shine and one that never shines. - DR
Erschienen: 13.11.2023
Dauer: 00:34:31
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Episode 5: Illumina Sequencing Part I"
Iuliia killed the stripey cat Chapters: 00:01:00 Intro 00:04:44 Stripes 00:11:40 Sanger with colors 00:17:20 CATCATCAT... 00:33:20 Planes 00:38:15 Genome assembly 00:40:00 Transcriptomics 01:01:00 Hi-C Why women are stripey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw Future-science about str profiling: https://www.future-science.com/doi/10.2144/000112582 Mark Santucci explaining str profiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3gH2wmAW8 NIJ explaining the theory for beginners: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-str-analysis MIT on genome assembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYW2AeDE6wU Fundamentals of genome assembly by Bioinformatics DotCa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wvGapmA5zM Genome assembly tips from F1000Research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850084/ CD Genomics explaining some genome assembly metrics: https://www.cd-genomics.com/an-overview-of-genome-assembly.html Geneticeducation giving an intro to transcriptomics: https://geneticeducation.co.in/what-is-transcriptomics/ A slideshare explaining transcriptomics: https://www.slideshare.net/divyasrivastava17/transcriptome-analysis How to create a volcano plot in R: https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/transcriptomics/tutorials/rna-seq-viz-with-volcanoplot-r/tutorial.html Bioinformatic walk-through by the galaxy project with a typical RNA-Seq experiment: https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/transcriptomics/tutorials/rna-seq-counts-to-genes/tutorial.html RNA splicing explained by arpan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQv1H-2IoI khanacademy on RNA processing: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/gene-expression-and-regulation/transcription-and-rna-processing/a/eukaryotic-pre-mrna-processing Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).
Erschienen: 20.10.2023
Dauer: 01:07:17
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Special Episode 2: How Sequencing is used"
