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Wouter De Coster

Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB and UAntwerp
Verified email at uantwerpen.be
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NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data

W De Coster, S D'hert, DT Schultz, M Cruts… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Here we describe NanoPack, a set of tools developed for visualization and processing of
long-read sequencing data from Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Pacific Biosciences. …

[HTML][HTML] Towards population-scale long-read sequencing

W De Coster, MH Weissensteiner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples. …

NanoPack2: population-scale evaluation of long-read sequencing data

W De Coster, R Rademakers - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increases in the cohort size in long-read sequencing projects necessitate more efficient
software for quality assessment and processing of sequencing data from Oxford Nanopore …

Structural variants identified by Oxford Nanopore PromethION sequencing of the human genome

W De Coster, P De Rijk, A De Roeck… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
We sequenced the genome of the Yoruban reference individual NA19240 on the long-read
sequencing platform Oxford Nanopore PromethION for evaluation and benchmarking of …

[HTML][HTML] Newest methods for detecting structural variations

W De Coster, C Van Broeckhoven - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
A substantial amount of structural variation in the human genome remains uninvestigated
due to the limitations of existing technologies, the presence of repetitive sequences, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Deleterious ABCA7 mutations and transcript rescue mechanisms in early onset Alzheimer's disease

…, J van der Zee, J Verheijen, W De Coster… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
Premature termination codon (PTC) mutations in the ATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family A,
Member 7 gene (ABCA7) have recently been identified as intermediate-to-high penetrant risk …

[HTML][HTML] NanoSatellite: accurate characterization of expanded tandem repeat length and sequence through whole genome long-read sequencing on PromethION

A De Roeck, W De Coster, L Bossaerts, R Cacace… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Technological limitations have hindered the large-scale genetic investigation of tandem
repeats in disease. We show that long-read sequencing with a single Oxford Nanopore …

Genomic analysis of a strain collection containing multidrug-, extensively drug-, pandrug-, and carbapenem-resistant modern clinical isolates of Acinetobacter …

…, C Whiteway, T De Pooter, W De Coster… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In this study, we characterize a new collection that comprises multidrug-resistant (MDR),
extensively drug-resistant (XDR), pandrug-resistant (PDR), and carbapenem-resistant modern …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of DPP6 in neurodegenerative dementia: a genetic player in the dysfunction of neuronal excitability

…, P De Rijk, H Gossye, K De Vos, W De Coster… - Acta …, 2019 - Springer
Emerging evidence suggested a converging mechanism in neurodegenerative brain diseases
(NBD) involving early neuronal network dysfunctions and alterations in the homeostasis …

Phenotypic characterization and heterogeneity among modern clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

…, T Coenye, T De Pooter, W De Coster… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogenic bacterium prioritized by WHO and
CDC because of its increasing antibiotic resistance. Heterogeneity among strains represents …