Re:Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
by Ovah on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:51AM
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Thank you. The upfront cost of the sequencer sure makes it tempting at first sight.
My desired hobbyist use case is to key out plants, lichens and mushrooms that I find in the field. I have the bioinformatics knowhow just need the hardware. 3-4h seems lika a long time for a genome that is <30k nucleotides long. Mushrooms on average seem to have almost as many genes as coronaviruses has nucleotides. I guess partial sequences (and thus reduced comp time?) might do the trick but it's probably hard to target those partial reference sequences with a long-read method like NanoPore.
My desired hobbyist use case is to key out plants, lichens and mushrooms that I find in the field. I have the bioinformatics knowhow just need the hardware. 3-4h seems lika a long time for a genome that is <30k nucleotides long. Mushrooms on average seem to have almost as many genes as coronaviruses has nucleotides. I guess partial sequences (and thus reduced comp time?) might do the trick but it's probably hard to target those partial reference sequences with a long-read method like NanoPore.