Sequence your own DNA. The $900 MinION USB stick will sequence DNA using nanopores.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies introduced its novel nanopore strand sequencing technique which it plans to offer directly to customers this year.
The GridION system consists of scalable instruments used with consumable cartridges designed to deliver tens of Gb of sequence data per 24 hour period, with the user choosing whether to run for minutes or days according to the experiment.
Oxford Nanopore has also developed the MinION, a disposable DNA sequencing device the size of a USB memory stick whose low cost, portability and ease of use are designed to make DNA sequencing universally accessible. A single MinION is expected to retail for less than $900.
Accuracy levels competitive with existing market-leading systems were demonstrated in company tests.
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