ArticleGenome research2026
Assessing the readiness of Oxford Nanopore sequencing for clinical genomics applications.
Article in Genome research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Structural variant calling using Sniffles2.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- MicroRNAs in long COVID: roles, diagnostic biomarker potential and detection.Human genomics · 2025Review
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Abstract
Long-read sequencing (LRS) technologies, namely, Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and Pacific Biosciences (PacBio), have emerged as promising solutions to overcome the limitations of short-read sequencing (SRS). Nevertheless, the still higher sequencing error rates compared with SRS, need for customized pipelines, rapidly updating software, and incipient scalability continue to present challenges for adopting ONT in standard clinical practice. Here we assess the performance of ONT (R9 and R10 chemistries) in comparison to Illumina and MGI across 17 well-characterized reference samples with 11 clinical variants representing nine different genetic diseases. To enable this, we have implemented a production-ready pipeline including SNV, indel, STR, SV, and CNV detection, alongside reporting key summary metrics to ensure high-quality data at the production sequencing level. Our results show high accuracy of ONT across SNVs (
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