Benjamin Istace

Bioinformatician at Genoscope. Long reads genome assembly and developer.

[Benjamin Istace @benjamin_istace]

Hapo-G, haplotype-aware polishing of genome assemblies with accurate reads https://t.co/fkpu6jkKSS

[Benjamin Istace @benjamin_istace]

Easily find and compare reference genomes to your genome assembly with Hobrac https://t.co/NACJnZr8mh

[ATLASea has migrated to BlueSky @PEPR_ATLASea]

Discover #ATLASea, a #France2030 research programme to build an atlas of marine genomes. First step, sampling marines species #DIVEsea, then sequencing their genomes #SEQsea and managing all the data #BYTEsea.

EN : https://t.co/ZbVtO66r09
FR : https://t.co/0jhCow2Mp1

[Benjamin Istace @benjamin_istace]

Whole genome sequencing of four Ixodes species expands understanding of tick evolution https://t.co/JZZCEA0et8

[Amin Madoui @transpositional]

Our last paper is out in @BioMedCentral about the effect marine currents on the genomic structure of 113 plankton taxa. A great collaboration with @r_lasojadart, @ASykulski , Mike O'malley and Christophe Ambroise

https://t.co/xIUeqfsQmA

[Alexander Wittenberg @AW_NGS]

@KeyGeneInfo received novel High duplex PromethION flow cells from @nanopore as Developer access. This pore is optimised to generate significant higher duplex data. Very high accuracy & long reads! Evaluation next week on first crops 🌱 #nanoporeconf

[GENOSCOPE/UMR Genomique Metabolique @GenoUMR_GM]

🎉PNAS letter to Editor written by @beamm_team @CLMonteil @vallenet is online untitled "Magnetosome proteins belong to universal protein families involved in many cell processes"
https://t.co/0R6FpT3fxR
@UnivEvry @CEA_Jacob_ @INSB_CNRS

[Pedro H Oliveira @pholive81]

Will you be around Paris on the 9th of October? Join our Open Day at Genoscope - National Sequencing Center! Great opportunity to discuss with researchers, get to know the sequencing machines, and even...extract DNA by yourself! Cerise on top of the cake? It is free! Please RT!

[antisense. @razoralign]

ggcoverage: an R package to visualize and annotate genome coverage for various NGS data https://t.co/2m7gjRSOhI

[Jean-Marc Aury @J_M_Aury]

Happy to share a high-quality and chromosome-scale assembly of the hexaploid wheat genome using
@nanopore, @bionanogenomics and @ArimaGenomics. Great collaboration between @CEA_Officiel and @INRAE_France.
https://t.co/38yaffnKzk

[Jean-Marc Aury @J_M_Aury]

The french variety Renan is one of the most widely used varieties in organic farming. Nice collaboration with @fredChoulet @stefan_engelen @benjamin_istace @Caroline_Belser

[LAGE Genoscope @GenoLAGE]

#eags_2021! Our lab on the frontline ! 👏👏👏
Would you like to know more about the Symbiodiniacea group across the Pacific Ocean ? Julie Le-Hoang will give you some insights! Come and have a look at Poster 20!
@GenoLAGE

[Jean-Marc Aury @J_M_Aury]

Telomere-to-telomere and gapless chromsomes of banana using @nanopore sequencing is now out in @CommsBio. Closed centromeres and architecture of large rDNA clusters. https://t.co/3TgEauHpIb

[Biology MDPI @Biology_MDPI]

Sequencing and Chromosome-Scale Assembly of Plant Genomes, Brassica rapa as a Use Case https://t.co/6JTZruqbGF ##mdpibiology via @Biology_MDPI @UnivParisSaclay @UnivRennes1 @UnivEvry

#genome; assembly; scaffolding; chromosome-scale; nanopore; optical map; bionano; omni-C;

[Jean-Marc Aury @J_M_Aury]

Happy to share a high-quality and chromosome-scale assembly of the hexaploid wheat genome using @nanopore, @bionanogenomics and @ArimaGenomics. Great collaboration between @CEA_Officiel and @INRAE_France.
https://t.co/uE9sviTyL5

[Caroline Belser @Caroline_Belser]

Our new paper is out! Sequencing and Chromosome-Scale Assembly of Plant Genomes, Brassica rapa as a Use Case https://t.co/7bUdvSPCLJ… @benjamin_istace @J_M_Aury @CEA_Jacob_ @seqlab @Biology_MDPI @MDPIOpenAccess #nanopore #bionano

[Oxford Nanopore @nanopore]

Coming up in a few minutes, Clive Brown @the_taybor, with an update entitled “Nobody Expects the Strandish Exposition”. Follow the talk live in this thread #nanoporeconf

[Jean-Marc Aury @J_M_Aury]

Happy to share BoardION, a web application for real time monitoring of sequencing experiments from @nanopore devices, @BMC_Bioinforma
https://t.co/uDgdxsrUdJ

[Benjamin Istace @benjamin_istace]

BoardION: real-time monitoring of @nanopore sequencing instruments https://t.co/KoxIPQI471

[Jean-Marc Aury @J_M_Aury]

Happy to see Hapo-G, our polishing method, out in #NARGenomicsAndBioinformatics @benjamin_istace. Hapo-G can use (short or long) accurate reads.
Hapo-G, haplotype-aware polishing of genome assemblies with accurate reads
https://t.co/Hu2G1eFuGo

[Oxford Nanopore @nanopore]

@Caroline_Belser used nanopore tech to obtain a chromosome-scale assembly of a banana genome. 5 /11 chromosomes were reconstructed telomere to telomere with a single contig, revealing the architecture of complex regions like centromeres & paralogous genes. https://t.co/ZJtcgjTVlZ