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Oxford Nanopore Technologies was founded in 2005 to develop an electronic, single molecule sensing system based on nanopore science. The company now has more than 250 employees from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialization. Oxford Nanopore's instruments — MinIon, PromethIon, and GridIon are adaptable for the analysis of DNA, RNA, proteins, small molecules and other types of molecule.

Oxford Nanopore Facts

 

CEO: Gordon Sanghera

Website: www.nanoporetech.com

Ticker symbol: Privately held

Headquarters: Oxford, UK

Number of employees: 250+

Mar 23, 2018

UPDATE: Judge Denies Oxford Nanopore's Request to Partially Dismiss PacBio Patent Lawsuit

The companies have been embroiled in several lawsuits in the US and in Europe, accusing each other of patent infringement.

Mar 20, 2018

Oxford Nanopore Raises £100M From International Investors

The company will use the funding to build a manufacturing facility, expand commercialization efforts, and develop new products.

Mar 09, 2018

Oxford Nanopore Customers in Europe, Australia Discuss Initial Runs on PromethIon

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Most customers are still in the very early stages of testing the device but said that data yield per flow cell has been continually increasing to nearly 100 gigabases.

Feb 16, 2018

At AGBT, Researchers Discuss Direct RNA Sequencing, Pursuit of Ever Longer Reads on MinIon

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At AGBT, researchers reported on progress made in generating megabase-long reads on the MinIon, as well as initial work doing direct RNA sequencing. 

Feb 08, 2018

Oxford Nanopore Wins Infringement Complaint Brought by PacBio

The US ITC has ruled that Oxford Nanopore's products do not infringe on single-molecule sequencing-related patents held by PacBio. 

Feb 08, 2018

Oxford Nanopore Update Focuses on PromethIon Improvements, Flongle Launch, MinIT Development

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Clive Brown, the company's chief technology officer, provided an update on the firm's business and talked about new products and planned improvements.

 

Feb 01, 2018

This Week in Nature

In Nature this week: nanopore sequencing and assembly human genome, method to reduce CRISPR off-target effects, and more.

Jan 29, 2018

Such Long Sequences

Researchers have used a portable nanopore sequencer to sequence and assemble a human reference genome.

Jan 19, 2018

Italian Team Developing Nanopore Sequencing, Droplet Digital PCR Test to Monitor Residual Disease

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The researchers plan to develop a clinical test to monitor CML patients in remission for the BCR-ABL1 rearrangement. 

Jan 17, 2018

This Week in Nucleic Acids Research

In Nucleic Acids Research this week: tool to identify bacterial plasmid sequences, long-read sequencing of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain, and more.

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