Name Body "Astroparticle Physics with the IceCube Neutrino and Cosmic Ray Observatory at the South Pole and a High-Energy Extension of One complete BAS BigRAID system (IceCube)" "Since the discovery of cosmic rays in 1912, we still do not know what the sources of these charged energetic particles are. Cosmic rays are detected through interactions in the Earth's atmosphere, and to identify the sources, one must determine the composition by measuring the secondary particles produced. However, the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos by IceCube has ushered in a new era called neutrino astronomy and heralded as the ""breakthrough of 2013."" Neutrinos are excellent astrophysical messengers; they interact only weakly and point back to their source. The sources of ..." "PromethION: nanopore sequencer for DNA and RNA sequencing (PromethION)" "PromethION 24 (Oxford Nanopore) is een stand-alone benchtop-instrument dat is ontworpen voor high-throughput, high-sample-number nanopore sequencing, ook wel derde generatie sequencing genoemd. Deze baanbrekende technologie verschilt van de meest gebruikte tweede generatie short-read (50-600 bp) sequencing: Nanopore-sequencing biedt leeslengtes van 10-100 kilobasen (kb), alleen beperkt door de lengte van intacte DNA- of RNA-moleculen die eraan worden gepresenteerd. Het modulaire ontwerp maakt een nieuw paradigma mogelijk van een veelzijdige workflow waarin veel verschillende experimenten ..."