Nick Sanderson
nickdsandy.bsky.social
Nick Sanderson
@nickdsandy.bsky.social
Bioinformatician interested in infection and immunity. Direct from sample sequencing for diagnostics. MMM group, NDM, Oxford University
Thanks, but we’re very family with saponin (see paper we published in 2022). This paper was specifically looking at adaptive sampling as another means of host depletion. As saponin can’t always be used

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Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Species Identification and Antimicrobial Resistance Prediction in Orthopedic Device Infection | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Diagnosis of orthopedic device-related infection is challenging, and causative pathogens may be difficult to culture. Metagenomic sequencing can diagnose infections without culture, but attempts to de...
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March 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Can’t believe this didn’t go viral.
All the best, Nick
February 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your grant will be funded,
As long as it's bird flu
February 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Been near any chickens recently?
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I've had requests for the raw squiggle data for this paper. I know a number of groups found that useful from our first R10 evaluation paper. So our raw fast5 (sorry not pod5) files for R10.4.1 are on ENA:
ERR13848445 E .coli
ERR13848444 P. aeruginosa
ERR13848443 S. aureus
ERR13848442 K. pneumoniae
November 18, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Thanks! It all started in your lab 😀
March 7, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Get any sleep?
February 9, 2024 at 9:45 AM