[cmrx64]

four figures these days. fits in your hand. nanopore is a revolution. https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/minion

there’s youtubers that have videos about doing this in a home wetlab. very achievable. some amateur soil biologists using this to try and sample microdiversity as the planet… humanifies.

[robertlagrant]

Ex-Nanopore employee here. One interesting thing we heard about internally was that OceanX[0] has one of our GridION[1] devices (slightly larger, and built-in compute) that they were using to track whales in the ocean by sequencing DNA found in seawater. Really cool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanX

[1] https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/gridion

[netcraft]

huge if true had an episode about this recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HlLwG2xN_c

[the__alchemist]

I have a mol bio home lab, and decided against it because while the devices themselves are reasonably priced, the flow cells are an expensive disposable.

I use Plasmidsaurus instead: Pay them $15/sample online, drop off the tubes in a styrophoam box labeled with a dinosaur in a nearby university building; get the results next morning. They use Oxford Nanopore, but are loading your sample along with many other samples to maximize flow cell use.

[butvacuum]

not suprised. the website seemed to indicate to me (a layman in this area) that it expired based on time, not use- so Seqiencing As A Service (ha!) makes financial sense for most people.

[dubi_steinkek]

Do you have links to these youtubers? Sounds interesting

[samplatt]

Not OP, but The Thought Emporium is a personal favourite. Their name belies the hands-on nature of their videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_q-fD_lyU