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 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
Updated preprint: A validated cloud-based genomic platform for co-ordinated, expedient global analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology Philip Fowler, 23rd January 202528th January 2025 In August 2022 seven laboratories across the world uploaded their SARS-CoV-2 genetics files for processing… Continue Reading
New preprint: comparing different genetics analysis pipelines for tuberculosis Philip Fowler, 13th January 202513th January 2025 Ruan Spies has done a careful systematic comparison of the current genetics pipelines that purport… Continue Reading
clinical microbiology New preprint: processing 3.9 million SARS-CoV-2 samples to make a consistent phylogenetic tree Philip Fowler, 7th May 20247th May 2024 Martin Hunt, Zam Iqbal and lots of others have written an epic preprint where they… Continue Reading
clinical microbiology New preprint: processing SARS-CoV-2 genetics in the cloud Philip Fowler, 31st January 202431st January 2024 In this preprint, we describe how in July 2022 for two weeks seven sites in… Continue Reading