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wow i didn’t know they were that “cheap” now. i used to work for a major competitor to the sequencer you linked, the SOLiD. and i feel like nanopore is the VR
by mylons 5y ago
wow i didn’t know they were that “cheap” now. i used to work for a major competitor to the sequencer you linked, the SOLiD.
and i feel like nanopore is the VR of dna sequencing. it’s always just another few years off.
- joshuamcginnis 5y agoWhat do you mean by it's always a few years off? Nanopore will allow you to do high-quality genomic sequencing _now_, in a home lab if you wanted, for less than $3K. If you amortize the 3K by the number of genomes you can sequence on the same flow cell, the price per base or per genome falls precipitously, depending on the size of the genome of course.
- ampdepolymerase 5y agoThe one I linked to is a decade out of date and OEM discontinued.
- mylons 5y agoya my first thought was how hard are reagents to get, but probably not that hard. i wasn’t in the lab, i was in bioinformatics so i’m generally clueless on reagent acquisition.
- divbzero 5y ago> and i feel like nanopore is the VR of dna sequencing. it’s always just another few years off. Is this also true for nanopores in protein sequencing? This HN comment from a few weeks back [1] pointed out recent progress but perhaps the tech is still not quite there. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481075
- haihaibye 5y agoOcculus sold 8.1m units this year, more than XBox.