Oxford Nanopore Doesn’t Disappoint
Omics! Omics!: Oxford Nanopore Doesn’t Disappoint
Imagine a sequencer which requires minimal sample prep, generates just under a gigabase in less than a day’s time for $1000 in consumable cost. Reads are 10s of kilobases long (if your input DNA is) and can read off base modifications, albeit with a 4% raw error rate distributed uniformly along the read. Sounds a bit like a PGM or MiSeq, though trading accuracy for very long reads. Except, that $1000 cost is the entire cost; there’s no instrument to buy. And forget the desktop; not only does it fit in your pocket; you could stuff a load of them in there.
