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Re:Oxford Nanopore MinION – USB stick-sized DNA sequencer by pcrh on Saturday June 14, 2014 @07:00PM (#7893937)
As it stands, it looks good enough for identification purposes (for example of a pathogen), but nowhere near good enough for genetic studies where single base pair variations are the most sought-after aspect.

For human genetic studies, I guess it also depends on how readily multiple reads can be obtained, and whether the errors are randomly distributed.

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Re:Oxford Nanopore MinION – USB stick-sized DNA sequencer by owlmonkey on Sunday June 15, 2014 @01:36PM (#7895761)
Totally agree. It is at best a semi-portable sensor (with wet prep) not a sequencer. Cost would be another big obstacle for using MinIon on human data. At about 100 megabases and $1000 per cell that's three orders of magnitude more expensive per base than a HiSeq X. (edit: spelling)
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