McGill Genome Center

The workflow begins with DNA or RNA extraction (if required), followed by quality and quantity assessment. We then perform library preparation and loading of the flowcell. The service includes running the latest basecalling algorithms. Bioinformatics services are offered to analyze the resulting reads, including alignment, variant detection, or de novo genome assembly. Oxford Nanopore sequencing is particularly valuable for long-read sequencing, structural-variant detection, genome assembly, transcript analysis, and real-time sequencing applications such as enrichment using adaptive sampling.