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Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by whatever1 on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:46PM (#48812368)
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.
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by myhf on Monday July 06, 2026 @09:09PM (#48812513)
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_(genetics)

Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by Jules-Bertholet on Monday July 06, 2026 @09:14PM (#48812540)
> 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 (#48812532)
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 (#48815364)
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
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by mbeavitt on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:24AM (#48815848)
This is simply not true, advances in basecalling and using Duplex give you >Q25