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A comment on $900 DNA sequencing USB stick announced by OxNano.

Re:$900 DNA sequencing USB stick announced by OxNano by papa_bear on Friday February 17, 2012 @08:06PM (#3605641)
This blog post gives some more in depth information: http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2012/02/oxford-nanopore...

They claim the accuracy is 96% and has the potential to get even better, which is even cooler given the long read length.

However, any error can be pretty upsetting and most next gen sequencers overcome this by doing many reads per base. I'm guessing that the current behemoth machines would be kept around for the time being to assemble the final, error free sequences?

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Re:$900 DNA sequencing USB stick announced by OxNano by nmz787 on Friday February 17, 2012 @08:52PM (#3605697)
current behemoth machines have errors too, often the best way to get a really polished sequence is to sequence on machines which have different type of errors, and interlace the data appropriately.
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