They’re making the Smidgion which can directly connect to smartphones. The minion needs a USB connection tho, which is the $1000 one. The raw data is actually

They’re making the Smidgion which can directly connect to smartphones. The minion needs a USB connection tho, which is the $1000 one. The raw data is actually pretty intense to decode - it took my 4 core i7 processor (2016) about 30 hours to basecall like 3gb of data from a flongle, which normally on minion flow cells you get like 30gb. This can be greatly increased with GPUs, however. Nanopore is very locked down, but data you can share freely.