Mk1D

Understanding the MinION Mk1D: Innovations for Microbiology

Tonight, I continued watching the session on the MinION Mk1D. The second speaker of the webinar was James Platt, the Director of Sequencing Platforms with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). They described the details of the MinION’s history. The Mk1D was rebuilt, including USB-C connectivity, Peltier module temperature control, and LED run status indicators. A comparison of the Mk1B […]
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Testing the MinION Mk1D in Alaskan Conditions

Tonight, I watched Devin M. Drown from the University of Alaska Fairbanks present on “Testing the MinION Mk1D in Alaska.” Drown is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Institute of Arctic Biology Genomics Core. Drown is passionate about training, including doing MinION hackathons. Drown, like me, was excited to test the device. They […]
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Workflows for Metagenomics and Isolate Genomes with ONT

The London Calling Metagenomics and isolate genome sequencing product demo was a fourteen-minute recording I watched tonight. The session was hosted by Rachel Rubinstein, a Technical Product Manager, Software, for Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). Rubinstein spoke about using ONT for bacterial and viral genome sequencing. The goal of the session was to share applications using […]
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