Aaron Pomerantz
@aaronpomerantz.bsky.social
Associate Director, Global Segment Marketing @ Oxford Nanopore Technologies - Microbiology, Infectious Disease, Synthetic Biology. The coolest discoveries are the ones you make. Tweets/views are my own.
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Our nature note with @philtorres.bsky.social @aaronpomerantz.bsky.social et al. in
@ecol-evol.bsky.social was featured in @science.org #ScienceShots written by
@sahasmehra.bsky.social
#Cyclosa #decoy #spiders #evolution #Peru #Philippines
@ecol-evol.bsky.social was featured in @science.org #ScienceShots written by
@sahasmehra.bsky.social
#Cyclosa #decoy #spiders #evolution #Peru #Philippines
For the first time, scientists have documented an unusual defense: Some species of arachnids build giant doppelgängers on their webs, creating a frightening deception that scares off would-be killers. https://scim.ag/487Myn0
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Our nature note with @philtorres.bsky.social @aaronpomerantz.bsky.social et al. in
@ecol-evol.bsky.social was featured in @science.org #ScienceShots written by
@sahasmehra.bsky.social
#Cyclosa #decoy #spiders #evolution #Peru #Philippines
@ecol-evol.bsky.social was featured in @science.org #ScienceShots written by
@sahasmehra.bsky.social
#Cyclosa #decoy #spiders #evolution #Peru #Philippines
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Congrats @philtorres.bsky.social and @aaronpomerantz.bsky.social on the paper! I look for these decoy spiders whenever I’m in the rainforest and this is the best example I’ve found. #inverts
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Congrats @philtorres.bsky.social and @aaronpomerantz.bsky.social on the paper! I look for these decoy spiders whenever I’m in the rainforest and this is the best example I’ve found. #inverts
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022
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Yeast genomes show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity. #YeastGenomes #GenomicVariations #TraitDiversity #LongReads #Sequencing #Pangenome @nature.com 🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yeast genomes show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity. #YeastGenomes #GenomicVariations #TraitDiversity #LongReads #Sequencing #Pangenome @nature.com 🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Introducing our new Microbial Amplicon Barcoding Kit, which enhances microbial community profiling with an information-rich, rapid & accessible protocol for streamlined identification of bacteria, archaea & fungi — in one go. nanoporetech.com/news/oxford-...
September 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Introducing our new Microbial Amplicon Barcoding Kit, which enhances microbial community profiling with an information-rich, rapid & accessible protocol for streamlined identification of bacteria, archaea & fungi — in one go. nanoporetech.com/news/oxford-...
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🚨 New tool for viral genomics!
Meet CLAE: a high-fidelity Nanopore sequencing strategy that pushes accuracy to Q30, boosts throughput >800 Mb/100 pores, and recovers full-length viral genomes from complex samples 🌊🦠
👉 [https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202505978]
#viromics #nanopore #genomics
Meet CLAE: a high-fidelity Nanopore sequencing strategy that pushes accuracy to Q30, boosts throughput >800 Mb/100 pores, and recovers full-length viral genomes from complex samples 🌊🦠
👉 [https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202505978]
#viromics #nanopore #genomics
September 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Pleased to say that our preprint benchmarking Nanopore data for MLST, cgMLST, cgSNP & AMR typing from bacterial isolates is out! TL;DR you can get almost perfect results from 50x depth using live SUP basecalling with a GPU in under 20 hours #microsky#IDsky 🦠🧬🖥️ /1
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Pleased to say that our preprint benchmarking Nanopore data for MLST, cgMLST, cgSNP & AMR typing from bacterial isolates is out! TL;DR you can get almost perfect results from 50x depth using live SUP basecalling with a GPU in under 20 hours #microsky#IDsky 🦠🧬🖥️ /1
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🧵🦠🖥️🧬🧪
Please RePost 🙏
We just released reference genomes for another 250 strains to the ATCC Genome Portal (genomes.ATCC.org)! We now have assemblies for
_5,750 microbial genomes_
AND
all assemblies w/ @nanoporetech.com data will include DNA methylation profiles too (details👇)
#genomics 1/
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We just released reference genomes for another 250 strains to the ATCC Genome Portal (genomes.ATCC.org)! We now have assemblies for
_5,750 microbial genomes_
AND
all assemblies w/ @nanoporetech.com data will include DNA methylation profiles too (details👇)
#genomics 1/
Home | ATCC Genome Portal
The ATCC Genome Portal is a repository of high-quality, authenticated microbial reference genomes.
genomes.ATCC.org
June 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Please RePost 🙏
We just released reference genomes for another 250 strains to the ATCC Genome Portal (genomes.ATCC.org)! We now have assemblies for
_5,750 microbial genomes_
AND
all assemblies w/ @nanoporetech.com data will include DNA methylation profiles too (details👇)
#genomics 1/
Please RePost 🙏
We just released reference genomes for another 250 strains to the ATCC Genome Portal (genomes.ATCC.org)! We now have assemblies for
_5,750 microbial genomes_
AND
all assemblies w/ @nanoporetech.com data will include DNA methylation profiles too (details👇)
#genomics 1/
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We’re bringing #ASMMicrobe 2025 to you, virtually.
Join Robert James, Angela Hickey, and Jose Alexander as they share how real-time, Oxford Nanopore sequencing is transforming microbiology—from single bacterial isolates to the complexities of the microbiome.
nanoporetech.com/about/events...
Join Robert James, Angela Hickey, and Jose Alexander as they share how real-time, Oxford Nanopore sequencing is transforming microbiology—from single bacterial isolates to the complexities of the microbiome.
nanoporetech.com/about/events...
June 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We’re bringing #ASMMicrobe 2025 to you, virtually.
Join Robert James, Angela Hickey, and Jose Alexander as they share how real-time, Oxford Nanopore sequencing is transforming microbiology—from single bacterial isolates to the complexities of the microbiome.
nanoporetech.com/about/events...
Join Robert James, Angela Hickey, and Jose Alexander as they share how real-time, Oxford Nanopore sequencing is transforming microbiology—from single bacterial isolates to the complexities of the microbiome.
nanoporetech.com/about/events...
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Need bacterial DNA methylation data? Well, we’ve been re-basecalling all ONT data for the ATCC Genome Portal to get it. A huge effort, but as of today we have Mthyl data for ~1,500 bacterial strains. Attending #ASMicrobe? happy to chat IRL about it too. i.e. > genomes.atcc.org/genomes/67e8...
ATCC® 9945a™ | Bacillus paralicheniformis | ATCC Genome Portal
Bacillus paralicheniformis is a strain of bacteria in the Bacillus genus. This genome was published to the ATCC Genome Portal on 2022-04-02
genomes.atcc.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Need bacterial DNA methylation data? Well, we’ve been re-basecalling all ONT data for the ATCC Genome Portal to get it. A huge effort, but as of today we have Mthyl data for ~1,500 bacterial strains. Attending #ASMicrobe? happy to chat IRL about it too. i.e. > genomes.atcc.org/genomes/67e8...
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Francisella tularensis identified using @articnetwork.bsky.social SMART-9N metagenomics and @nanoporetech.com sequencing. Amazing work!
🚨 Tularemia mystery solved in stranded belugas in Alaska! thanks to smart-9N metagenomics & nanopore sequencing 🔬🐋 #wildhealth #onehealth Well done @bortz-virology.bsky.social and Team!!
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
June 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Francisella tularensis identified using @articnetwork.bsky.social SMART-9N metagenomics and @nanoporetech.com sequencing. Amazing work!
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What a great key note presentation from @mariechattaway.bsky.social looking at the evolution of #AMR in #Salmonella over the lifetime of #publichealth surveillance. If you enjoyed Marie's talk, then there are many posters featuring work from others @ukhsa.bsky.social's surveillance team here at #I3S
June 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
What a great key note presentation from @mariechattaway.bsky.social looking at the evolution of #AMR in #Salmonella over the lifetime of #publichealth surveillance. If you enjoyed Marie's talk, then there are many posters featuring work from others @ukhsa.bsky.social's surveillance team here at #I3S
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Very cool!
Need bacterial DNA methylation data? Well, we’ve been re-basecalling all ONT data for the ATCC Genome Portal to get it. A huge effort, but as of today we have Mthyl data for ~1,500 bacterial strains. Attending #ASMicrobe? happy to chat IRL about it too. i.e. > genomes.atcc.org/genomes/67e8...
ATCC® 9945a™ | Bacillus paralicheniformis | ATCC Genome Portal
Bacillus paralicheniformis is a strain of bacteria in the Bacillus genus. This genome was published to the ATCC Genome Portal on 2022-04-02
genomes.atcc.org
June 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Very cool!
Each year at @asm.org I'm blown away by the growing amount of presentations and posters leveraging @nanoporetech.com. This year we identified nearly 100 abstracts, ranging from clinical micro & public health applications to environmental research. See you there! nanoporetech.com/about/events...
June 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Each year at @asm.org I'm blown away by the growing amount of presentations and posters leveraging @nanoporetech.com. This year we identified nearly 100 abstracts, ranging from clinical micro & public health applications to environmental research. See you there! nanoporetech.com/about/events...
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New metagenome assembler for ONT R10 and PacBio HiFi reads, from Jim Shaw. See Jim's thread for details
Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social).
myloasm-docs.github.io
myloasm-docs.github.io
myloasm - metagenomic assembly with (noisy) long reads
myloasm-docs.github.io
May 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New metagenome assembler for ONT R10 and PacBio HiFi reads, from Jim Shaw. See Jim's thread for details
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Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-inherent GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results thread on our recent preprint 🧵.
May 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-inherent GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results thread on our recent preprint 🧵.
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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham
Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Every year there so many amazing @nanoporetech.com updates at London Calling. Here I'll focus on some of my top picks for Microbiology & Infectious Disease 🦠
First, we saw how the technology continued to advance research in 2024 with ~2/3 of ONT publications in micro/infectious #nanoporeconf
First, we saw how the technology continued to advance research in 2024 with ~2/3 of ONT publications in micro/infectious #nanoporeconf
May 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Every year there so many amazing @nanoporetech.com updates at London Calling. Here I'll focus on some of my top picks for Microbiology & Infectious Disease 🦠
First, we saw how the technology continued to advance research in 2024 with ~2/3 of ONT publications in micro/infectious #nanoporeconf
First, we saw how the technology continued to advance research in 2024 with ~2/3 of ONT publications in micro/infectious #nanoporeconf
This is going to be an incredible resource for the microbiology community!
Who has DNA methylation from ~5,000 microbes sequenced with @nanoporetech.com? We do.
Who’s going to be working their tails off trying to get this data out before ASM Microbe? We are. 🙃
Stay tuned! Major updates coming to the ATCC Genome Portal starting w/methylation data on 1000’s of microbes
Who’s going to be working their tails off trying to get this data out before ASM Microbe? We are. 🙃
Stay tuned! Major updates coming to the ATCC Genome Portal starting w/methylation data on 1000’s of microbes
May 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is going to be an incredible resource for the microbiology community!
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High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.22.649928v1
April 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.22.649928v1
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It's been a good month for Nanopore assembly preprints! This time metagenomic assembly with nanoMDBG: hundreds of high-quality MAGs from high-complexity communities
High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.22.649928v1
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's been a good month for Nanopore assembly preprints! This time metagenomic assembly with nanoMDBG: hundreds of high-quality MAGs from high-complexity communities
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One thing I’m looking forward to this year:
Updating the ATCC Genome Portal to be able to deliver the DNA methylation data we have on over 5,000 bacteria and fungi…
We just finished rebasecalling all of the raw @nanoporetech.com data we’ve produced since 2019 with the latest version of Dorado.🙃
Updating the ATCC Genome Portal to be able to deliver the DNA methylation data we have on over 5,000 bacteria and fungi…
We just finished rebasecalling all of the raw @nanoporetech.com data we’ve produced since 2019 with the latest version of Dorado.🙃
April 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
One thing I’m looking forward to this year:
Updating the ATCC Genome Portal to be able to deliver the DNA methylation data we have on over 5,000 bacteria and fungi…
We just finished rebasecalling all of the raw @nanoporetech.com data we’ve produced since 2019 with the latest version of Dorado.🙃
Updating the ATCC Genome Portal to be able to deliver the DNA methylation data we have on over 5,000 bacteria and fungi…
We just finished rebasecalling all of the raw @nanoporetech.com data we’ve produced since 2019 with the latest version of Dorado.🙃
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This new Hifiasm --ont option is amazing. It worked like a charm for us in the nanopore adaptive sampling based assembly paradigm we introduced in a preprint recently.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This new Hifiasm --ont option is amazing. It worked like a charm for us in the nanopore adaptive sampling based assembly paradigm we introduced in a preprint recently.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Efficient near telomere-to-telomere assembly of Nanopore Simplex reads
Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly is the ultimate goal for de novo genome assembly. Existing algorithms capable of near T2T assembly all require Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) ultra-long reads w...
www.biorxiv.org
April 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...