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by yreg 1013 days ago
There are portable devices for sequencing out in the field, like MinION.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRSxWtJPUw

https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion
1 comments
aydyn 1013 days ago
Nanopore has a much, much higher error rate and you still need sample extraction / sample prep all the same.
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yreg 1013 days ago
The error rate is low enough for plenty of tasks. E.g. DoctorOetker's goal of finding out how novel the collected genome is.

If you can do the extraction / prep with a briefcase you bring to a jungle, then you can do it on a boat as well.

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