This blog post gives some more in depth information: http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2012/02/oxford-nanopore-megaton-announcement-why-do-you-need-a-machine

This blog post gives some more in depth information: http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2012/02/oxford-nanopore-megaton-announcement-why-do-you-need-a-machine-exclusive-interview-for-this-blog/ http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2012/02/oxford-nanopore... They claim the accuracy is 96% and has the potential to get even better, which is even cooler given the long read length. However, any error can be pretty upsetting and most next gen sequencers overcome this by doing many reads per base. I'm guessing that the current behemoth machines would be kept around for the time being to assemble the final, error free sequences?