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.
At the PAG conference, researchers said they are sequencing 100 tomato genomes in 100 days using Oxford Nanopore's PromethIon and a pipeline for maximizing SV diversity.
Developed by University of Texas researchers, the method is one of a small but growing number of efforts to develop single-molecule protein analysis techniques.
Researchers have been developing nanopore metagenomic sequencing protocols to enable real-time outbreak surveillance outside the traditional laboratory.
The researchers are testing the method in a clinical trial of hospital-acquired pneumonia and are working on tests for meningitis and prosthetic joint infections.
