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GridIon Mk1

Jul 29, 2019

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has launched GridIon Mk1, an upgrade to the GridIon X5 sequencing platform that will start shipping this week. It contains more powerful GPU technology, specifically a Nvidia Volta GV100 card, so basecalling now only requires 10 percent of the GPU resource. In addition, power requirements have been simplified, which increases the stability of the platform.

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