Illumina have finally dropped the NeoPrep from their lineup after a short but pretty rocky road. Launched at AGBT15 the instrument promised hassle free library prep automation for users that did not require full 96well plate production-scale solutions. Early access users I spoke to at […]
I’m predicting that 2017 will be the breakthrough year for nanopore sequencing. Having seen what’s been going on over the last 12-24 months I’m pretty confident that we’ll see at least one NGS niche being taken over by Nanopore sequencing in 2017. Whether this will […]
I did not arrive at London Calling until late on Thursday afternoon but what an excellent start I was given: Clive Brown’s update – where ONT are today, and what’s coming tomorrow! The Thursday afternoon, evening and Friday sessions created a palpable buzz in the […]
I’ll finish my write up of the ONT London Calling event after the bank-holiday weekend but I wanted to get this post out as I think we came up with a killer app for MinION, or even SmidgION on your iPhone: direct RNA-seq from bacterial […]
Researchers in the group of Yolanda Sanz in Spain deposited a preliminary MinION study describing the bioRxiv of 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing from a mock microbial community composed of genomic DNA from 20 different bacterial species (BEI Resources).Experimental workflow: 1.5kb amplicons were generated from 16S […]
Breaking news: AGBT Feb 14th: David Jaffe from the Broad Institute is presenting a talk titled: “Assembly of Bacterial Genomes Using Long Nanopore Readsâ€. My assumption is that this is ONT, it may not be but see you there anyway.Almost there. Registration to the MinION […]
Given HiSeq 2500 and Ion Proton it is entirely possible for someone to sequence their genome in the Illumina or Life-Tech booth’s at AGBT, so will anyone attempt it?I am sure there would be strong interest from the AGBT community. So what’s stopping this from […]
Many of the readers of this blog will have seen the announcements from Oxford Nanopore Technologies on their MinIon early access program. The people I talk to are almost universally excited; if a little sceptical about how quickly we’ll be getting rid of our HiSeq’s […]
Update from GenomeWeb at the bottom!Get ready for millions of minions! ONT have announced an early-access program for the MinIon (GridION later) and it is almost free to access. I’m sure they will see huge demand from eager NGS users. But who will have projects […]
So the drama is finally over and now we can expect great things from the company developing the worlds best nanopore sequencer, Illumina’s Jat Flatley confirms they have one in development!And at the same time MinIon is about to make it’s comeback in the latest […]
