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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 18, 2019

Nanopore Sequencing Adapter Enables Low-Cost Experiments, May Broaden Technology's Use

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Early-access users of the Flongle said the small, inexpensive flow cells allow them to develop new methods quickly and to check the quality of clones and libraries.

Mar 11, 2019

This Week in PLOS

In PLOS this week: population genetics of region with high Burkitt lymphoma rates, analysis of Brazilian Chikungunya virus strains, and more.

Feb 12, 2019

Oxford Nanopore Prevails in US Patent Dispute With Pacific Biosciences

The US Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling by the International Trade Commission that found Oxford Nanopore's products do not infringe on PacBio's patents.

Jan 23, 2019

Long-Read Genome Assemblies Have Many Errors in Protein-Coding Regions, Study Finds

Three long-read assemblies — two from PacBio data alone and one from Oxford Nanopore and Illumina data — had considerably more indel errors in genes than short-read assemblies.

Jan 22, 2019

European Patent Office Revokes Pacific Biosciences DNA Sample Prep Patent

Oxford Nanopore had challenged the validity of the patent, EP3045542, which relates to DNA sample preparation for PacBio's circular consensus sequencing.

Jan 14, 2019

DNA Extraction Remains Bottleneck for Long-Read Techs But Solutions Begin to Emerge

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Circulomics, Bionano, Sage Science, RevoluGen, and others have been developing methods for extracting DNA hundreds of kilobases and up to megabases in length.

Jan 11, 2019

People in the News: Cindy Perettie, William Finger, Richard Compton, More

Jan 04, 2019

People in the News: Peter Meldrum, Christine Tsingos, James Angus McDonald, More

Jan 04, 2019

This Week in Science

In Science this week: metagenomic nanopore sequencing of Lassa fever outbreak, and more.

Dec 03, 2018

New Pore and More

At a user meeting, Oxford Nanopore gave an update on what it has been working on.

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Concerns About Bias in Policies

Researchers representing scientists and students of Chinese descent voice their concerns about recent US policies and rhetoric.

Reprogrammable DNA

Wired reports that researchers have shown they could reprogram a DNA-based computer.

Lack of Diversity

Researchers say increased diversity in genomic studies will benefit all, PBS NewsHour reports.

This Week in Science

In Science this week: whole-genome sequencing of single sperm cells, and more.

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