Third-generation sequencing (TGS) technologies like the portable MinION sequencer promise to revolutionize biology, but getting there will require tweaking techniques. Particularly, the low output ...

We are getting wind that the developers of the MinION DNA sequencer have been able to work out early issues in reliability, and intend to bring a device market later this year. Having a device like ...

When the Ebola virus spread through West Africa a few years ago, a new, portable DNA sequencer developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) was brought to New Guinea. There, the sequencer analyzed ...

Researchers have found a simple way to eliminate almost all sequencing errors produced by a widely used portable DNA sequencer (Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinION device). Researchers have found a ...

Oxford Nanopore Technology MinION sequencer. For the first time, researchers using a nanopore sequencer have assembled a human genome using ultra long reads. This achievement, described today in ...

When it comes to DNA, France has always been behind the times. Never mind the hefty fines and prison sentence a man apparently can get for trying to order a paternity test, it seems that just knowing ...

High-throughput sequencing is revolutionizing research in plant evolutionary biology. Using third-generation sequencing technologies, researchers are able to target long fragments of chloroplast DNA ...