Thank you. The upfront cost of the sequencer sure makes it tempting at first sight. My desired hobbyist use case is to key out plants, lichens and mushrooms th

Thank you. The upfront cost of the sequencer sure makes it tempting at first sight. My desired hobbyist use case is to key out plants, lichens and mushrooms that I find in the field. I have the bioinformatics knowhow just need the hardware. 3-4h seems lika a long time for a genome that is <30k nucleotides long. Mushrooms on average seem to have almost as many genes as coronaviruses has nucleotides. I guess partial sequences (and thus reduced comp time?) might do the trick but it's probably hard to target those partial reference sequences with a long-read method like NanoPore.