An international consortium of universities and institutes has developed a standard protocol for using Oxford Nanopore's hand-held MinIoN DNA sequencer. Unlike other devices on the market, the MinIoN works by reading each individual base of DNA as it is threaded through a pore, allowing it to read much greater lengths of DNA, and at a high precision. Five laboratories in the The Netherlands, the US, Canada and UK have devised a protocol that demonstrates the consistency, accuracy and reproducibility of the data across the different laboratories.
An international consortium of universities and institutes has developed a standard protocol for using Oxford Nanopore's hand-held MinIoN DNA sequencer. Unlike other devices on the market, the MinIoN works by reading each individual base of DNA as it is threaded through a pore, allowing it to read much greater lengths of DNA, and at a high precision. Five laboratories in the UK, the US, Canada and The Netherlands have devised a protocol that demonstrates the consistency, accuracy and reproducibility of the data across the different laboratories.