Advantages of Hand-Held Nanopore Sequencers
December 8, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
We’re seeing more and increasingly favorable reports about Oxford Nanopore’s “MinION” hand-held DNA sequencer. This piece says: “As a strand of DNA moves through the MinION nanopore, the MinION ‘sees’ five nucleotides at a time. Every set of five nucleotides produces a characteristic current, allowing the MinION to read out the DNA code in a single, continuous stream.” Supposedly, this happens faster, better and cheaper than any other means. MORE
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