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Oxford Nanopore MinIT

Oct 10, 2018

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has launched the MinIT, a compute module for use with the MinIon sequencer. MinIT is equipped with a Nvidia AGX system for real-time high-throughput data analysis and is preconfigured with software for MinIon set up and operation. Users can operate the module using either a tablet or mobile phone. MinIT runs both the instrument software MinKnow and the real-time analysis platform for nanopore data EPI2ME. Customers can power the tool using battery packs, which are available separately.

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