Episode 289

February 13, 2026

00:16:18

289: MinION detection of chimeric reads in murine Ifna/Ifnb amplicons and ligation-related artifact prevalence

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289: MinION detection of chimeric reads in murine Ifna/Ifnb amplicons and ligation-related artifact prevalence
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289: MinION detection of chimeric reads in murine Ifna/Ifnb amplicons and ligation-related artifact prevalence

Feb 13 2026 | 00:16:18

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Show Notes

White R et al., F1000Research - Investigation of chimeric reads in MinION nanopore sequencing of short PCR amplicons, focusing on ligation-related artifacts, barcode tracing, and the prevalence of cross-gene chimeras in murine Ifna/Ifnb sequencing runs.

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Article title:
Investigation of chimeric reads using the MinION

First author:
White R

Journal:
F1000Research

DOI:
10.12688/f1000research.11547.2

Reference:
White R, Pellefigues C, Ronchese F, Lamiable O, Eccles D. Investigation of chimeric reads using the MinION [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research. 2017;6:631. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11547.2

License:
This episode is based on an open-access article published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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