Purpose Recent improvements in Nanopore sequencing chemistry has made it a promising platform for long-read 16S rRNA sequencing. This study evaluated its clinical utility in a nationwide collaboration coordinated by Genomic Medicine Sweden. Methods Thirteen mock samples comprised of various bacterial strains and an External Quality Assessment (EQA) panel from QCMD (Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostics) were analysed by 20...

The shells of bivalve mollusks have been shown to contain a wealth of information about the environment in which the organisms lived as well as about their life histories. Shells of the Great Scallop Pecten maximus were collected in 1987 and 1988 at 15–25 m depth close to the Austevoll islands (Norway). A sharp slowdown in growth was detected in 1986 for all age classes, resulting in a growth‐rate decrease of nearly 45% over 1...