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Prof. Tulio de Oliveira is a bioinformatician that has first moved to South Africa in 1997. He has received his BSc at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil and MSc/PhD at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, South Africa. He has been awarded two prestigious fellowships, an European Commission Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, U.K. from 2004 to 2006 (which was selected as one of top 20 inspiring researcher fellows in Europe) and a U.K. Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire and Un...

December 15, 2020 By Allison Proffitt December 15, 2020 | Sequencing in the palm of your hand is now a reality. Oxford Nanopore’s MinION is a handheld sequencer that has been used “in the field” to sequence genomic materials in Africa in the middle of the Ebola outbreak, in South America during the Zika outbreak, and even on the International Space Station. But even as the sequencers are spitting out reads, that’s not solving the analysis problem.  iGenomics can do that for you.  In a paper published in GigaScience (DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa138), a team of research...