<story><title>Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/03/sequencing-your-dna-with-a-usb-dongle-and-open-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koeng</author><text>Until you also realize you need a Qubit and the library preps and oh now you need NEB next gen enzymes and wow turns out pipette technique really matters.&lt;p&gt;That said, I love Nanopores, I use them in my business, and those error rates you can hack around if you know what’s going on under the hood.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/03/sequencing-your-dna-with-a-usb-dongle-and-open-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samchorlton</author><text>So happy to see this here. While sequencing is quite old, mass adoption still has not come. The benefits are clear - faster infectious disease diagnosis, personalized treatment, tracking the spread of infection, identifying food contamination - the use-cases are endless. However before nanopore sequencing came, it was always out of reach of the masses.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve actually started BugSeq[0] to help labs get into nanopore sequencing - improving these open source tools and also writing our own. Orgs like FDA, USDA, big food co&amp;#x27;s, CDC, etc are now all adopting nanopore sequencing. Happy to see the industry taking off, this will be a step function improvement for public health in general.&lt;p&gt;(disclaimer: founder of BugSeq)
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