four figures these days. fits in your hand. nanopore is a revolution. https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/minion
replythere’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.
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.
replyDo you have links to these youtubers? Sounds interesting
replyNot OP, but The Thought Emporium is a personal favourite. Their name belies the hands-on nature of their videos.
replyPaleontology has been really helped by the ease of sequencing, to the point where many evolutionary arguments are moot. Humans are apes, birds are dinosaurs. Some people still dispute it, but not with evidence on their side.
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reply> birds are dinosaurs
replyNot that I doubt that, but how does DNA help, when we have no DNA samples from dinosaurs?
> Some people still dispute it
replyI particularly like this Futurama clip on the subject. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzGtk7Ip4NU
Should be noted, though, the cheaper/quicker techniques do still come with compromises compared to the "gold standard" technique used for the Human Genome Project.
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