Oxford Nanopore MinION – USB stick-sized DNA sequencer

Re:Oxford Nanopore MinION – USB stick-sized DNA sequencer by tkinom on Saturday June 14, 2014 @03:14PM (#7893423)

Very nice! I worked on the firmware for the "Applied Biosystems ABI Prism 310 DNA Sequencer". I remembered it cost >$60K each when it was released ~1996, 1997 time frame.

It is good to see DNA sequencer tech progress faster than Semiconductor.

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Re:Oxford Nanopore MinION – USB stick-sized DNA sequencer by kanzure on Saturday June 14, 2014 @09:00PM (#7894077)

> I worked on the firmware for the "Applied Biosystems ABI Prism 310 DNA Sequencer".

Do you have copies of that firmware or know where I could pick it up? I'd like to poke around, try some reverse engineering, etc.

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Re:Oxford Nanopore MinION – USB stick-sized DNA sequencer by tkinom on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @01:14PM (#7905612)

Sorry, it was not open source. BTW, it is just standard embedded firmware that control 3 axis motors + pump, CCD camera, etc. Highly couple to that particular instrument' HW. I am not sure what you can learn from it even if it was open source.

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