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APOBEC forever! ...at least until we find something more fascinating

Joined March 2020
Hopefully, one step closer to the clinic… It was exciting working on it: methylation, fragmentomics, and all. Thanks @benbfly and all others! Just a teaser: the correlation of methylation and tumour fraction (healthy controls are the blue bubbles). biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Excited to announce our new preprint on Nanopore methylation for liquid biopsy. Thanks for producing these amazing sequences Filippo, @silvoLab and @nanopore, and thanks to the analysis team Efrat and @ShariO_51. Excellent team effort. @The__Taybor said to get cracking so we did!
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If you enjoy #RNA biology, #RNAediting, and all sort of RNA modifications (#m6A, etc.), join us next week for the Final EPITRAN Conference. Just a few hours every day, Mon to Wed. The registration is free and the discussions engaging… webmagazine.unitn.it/en/even…
special bonus for cell biologists: HEK293 genomic profile. Note how all CNVs are NOT clonal. Filippo, the bioinformatician, politely asked how biologists can use these t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ cells. A very good point… molecular-cancer.biomedcentr…
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By the way, for all #nanopore aficionados, our work on detection of Copy Number Alterations from #liquidbiopsy is out. No amplification, cell-free DNA goes straight to the flow cells (just add adaptors) [molecular-cancer.biomedcentr…]
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Replying to @Ayjchan
APOBEC1 is present in ~every tetrapod. APOBEC3A is primate-specific. Short story: every mammal has its own set of APOBEC3s. And bats have plenty (most quite similar to APOBEC3A) academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
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almost straight out of #nanoporeconf, here is our preprint on CNV detection of #cfDNA from #liquidbiopsy of cancer patients biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Replying to @NanoporeConf
and by the way... that's my student :) nanopore sequencing on cancer liquid biopsies - Our first foray in a field that is definitely not APOBECs…. It has been quite good working on it. The bioRxiv manuscript will follow quite soon
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...and here it is, hot off the virtual presses, our SARS-CoV-2 editing manuscript is out in Science Advances. Now with our favourite model for the editing (and more samples) advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
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the proofreading system in CoV actually seems to help also with deaminations (this suggests that what we see happens later on): dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
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Congratulations to Martina, Salvatore and Francesco: #PhD viva and #lab party, everything online in these days of #coronavirus
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