antimicrobial resistance New paper: Validation of an optimized Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow versus Illumina for mycobacteria from primary MGIT culture Philip Fowler, 24th August 202624th August 2026 Most genetic sequencing of Mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has for historical reasons used short-read technology,… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New preprint: using genetics to analyse ESBL infections in a neonatal ICU ward Philip Fowler, 7th July 20267th July 2026 In this preprint, Melody Parker as part of her DPhil, has analysed a series of… Continue Reading
clinical microbiology ESM Annual Congress 2026 Philip Fowler, 26th June 202626th June 2026 Earlier this week the 46th Annual Congress of the European Society of Mycobacteriology was held in Verona,… Continue Reading
clinical microbiology New paper: Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny Philip Fowler, 9th February 20269th February 2026 Zam Iqbal, at the University of Bath, led this epic study published today in Nature… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New paper: how well can we predict AMR in tuberculosis samples? Philip Fowler, 16th December 202516th December 2025 This paper just published in Microbial Genomics examines how well our software tool, gnomonicus, predicts… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance New preprint: Predicting pyrazinamide resistance in M. tuberculosis using a graph convolutional network Philip Fowler, 29th October 202530th October 2025 In previous work we’ve used “traditional” machine-learning approaches, like XGBoost, to learn and therefore predict… Continue Reading