Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers

Re:Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers by cstross on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:37AM (#16264250)

I'm pretty sure we are now just a couple of marketing cycles away from a version of this being re-packaged and sold to police departments around the world as a tool for identifying suspects in a cloud database of DNA sequences belonging to People of Interest.

(You don't need a complete sequence for that, just enough unique markers to ID somebody.)

Goodbye "papers, please", hello "cheek swab, please".

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Re:Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers by jrm5100 on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:31AM (#16266048)

The forensic field moves very slowly in adopting new technology since they have to do a lot of re-validation every time anything changes.

This idea already here, but with technology based on older/simpler methods. One example is Intigenx: https://integenx.com/rapidhit-system/

The FBI has plans for implementing them: https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbis-plans-for-the-use-of.... The laws just need to catch up (or prevent it).

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Re:Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers by bayesian_horse on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:21AM (#16264673)

Too expensive with the current nanopore technology.

And with any other technology, including a miniaturized PCR implementation, it would be too slow.

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