Our Head of the Genomics department, Adriel Latorre, has published a guide on metagenomic analysis on Oxford Nanopore (ONT)’s blog. The article is based on results previously published on bioRxiv.

In this work, Latorre-Pérez et al., compares available methods for the assembly of metagenomes from ONT sequences and discusses some key aspects that could improve the use of this technology in metagenomic sequencing studies. It must be noted that the development of analysis tools for Nanopore sequences is a very dynamic process, and new assembly tools and/or new versions of already existent tools are constantly released. This is why a GitHub repository has ben created to periodically update our evaluation study with new data and assembly tools.