Adam Ewing

Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains Over the past 5 to 7 million years, humans and chimpanzees have diverged in brain size, structural complexity, and cognitive abilities despite high conservation of protein-coding genes. Notably, the e...

New preprint from our lab: ‘Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains’. Very proud of this piece which took almost a decade to finish.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

An allele-resolved nanopore-guided tour of the human placental methylome - Nature Communications The placenta is a crucial organ required for human pregnancy which has a unique epigenetic and gene expression landscape. Here, the authors have applied nanopore whole genome sequencing technology to ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks! Can log the bucket start values + a pseudocount. Just pushed a couple changes regarding the read distribution plot (bucket type, whether to log).

in case anyone else finds this useful for monitoring #nanopore via the command line: github.com/adamewing/se...

test post please ignore