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by owlmonkey 4392 days ago
Totally agree. It is at best a semi-portable sensor (with wet prep) not a sequencer. Cost would be another big obstacle for using MinIon on human data. At about 100 megabases and $1000 per cell that's three orders of magnitude more expensive per base than a HiSeq X. (edit: spelling)