Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home
by whatever1 on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:46PM
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What is the accuracy in this ? Aka if I run the experiment 10 times how many differences will i get? I don’t have a physical sense on what would be a good number.
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You would get a lot of differences, but the errors would cancel each other out with enough depth of coverage.
This technology's baseline accuracy is around 95% per base, so 10x reads of every segment in the sample would give >99% accuracy for each base after aligning the reads with each other.
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home
by Jules-Bertholet on Monday July 06, 2026 @09:14PM
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> so 10x reads of every segment in the sample would give >99% accuracy for each base after aligning the reads with each other
This assumes random errors, which IIRC isn't the case for Oxford Nanopore.
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home
by Jules-Bertholet on Monday July 06, 2026 @09:12PM
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Oxford Nanopore unfortunately has a high error rate (3-5%) compared to other sequencing technologies. And the errors are non-random
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home
by Gethsemane on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:16AM
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For most DNA it now sits at ~Q20 (1%) which is a big improvement - there was also some hacky stuff like HERRO and duplex sequencing which improved it substantially. For routine genome sequencing it's definitely suitable, and the long-read advantage helps resolve some of those trickier regions