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  • atrus6 hours ago
    Would these be useful in sequencing the plant/animal life around my home? I think it would be cool for there to be repos of local wildlife around their place. Although, I can't say I even know where to start in all that.
  • Mistletoe6 hours ago
    “The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed.” -William Gibson
  • drops4 days ago
    thought this was about bio-reverse-engineering at first
  • aaron6954 days ago
    I think it only costs $2000 - https://store.nanoporetech.com/minion.html which is pretty amazing
    • the__alchemist7 hours ago
      Unfortunately, the flow cells themselves make the cost of running these regularly much higher. This is still an amazing improvement from the past few years and decades! I am clarifying that we're not "at spend $2k and you're good."

      I believe Illumina is still more cost effective for whole genome sequencing, but Oxford Nanopore is perfect for batched plasmid sequencing. For example, Plasmidsaurus will sequence your plasmid DNA for $15 each, and email you the results overnight!

    • rurban3 days ago
      Which would enabling every police officer to do DNA matching by themselves in the field, in minutes, not days in some external lab. A breakthrough
      • michaelbarton7 hours ago
        I curious to hear more about your thought. Would it be that they take a suspect’s swab at the scene and then match against a database?
      • jltsiren6 hours ago
        Technically it's been possible for a decade. Back then, it was kind of big news when people were using an earlier version of the device for sequencing in the field during the Ebola epidemic. Of course you still need some training to do it properly, and the field kits have a short shelf life.
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