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by glofish 1641 days ago
Alas the information presented is an over simplification of the process.

To actually sequence DNA with this USB thingy you need to prepare a so called sequencing library - and for that you need a fairly well equipped lab - expensive reagents and years of practice and skill ... a mid level biology Ph.D can prepare these ...

in addition the flowcell sold by Oxford Nanopore often malfunctions and the whole run is a bust ... (behaves like this since 2014 ... so no, the technology does not seem to improve a whole lot)

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Yep