Unfortunately, the flow cells themselves make the cost of running these regularly much higher. This is still an amazing improvement from the past few years and

Unfortunately, the flow cells themselves make the cost of running these regularly much higher. This is still an amazing improvement from the past few years and decades! I am clarifying that we're not "at spend $2k and you're good." I believe Illumina is still more cost effective for whole genome sequencing, but Oxford Nanopore is perfect for batched plasmid sequencing. For example, Plasmidsaurus will sequence your plasmid DNA for $15 each, and email you the results overnight!