Jeremy Westhead

This study validates an optimized Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow for mycobacteria from primary MGIT cultures, showing high concordance with Illumina for species identification and SNP detection.

This study compares long-read and short-read sequencing for tuberculosis drug resistance and outbreak analysis, finding they are comparable with minimal differences in key clinical outputs.

This paper evaluates the performance of the gnomonicus tool for predicting antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a diverse testset of 2,663 samples and compares it to TB-Profiler.

This paper develops an automated method to build a comprehensive catalogue of resistance-associated variants for M. tuberculosis, achieving comparable performance to existing catalogues without expert rules.