Oxford Nanopore Technologies

UK-based Oxford Nanopore offers real-time, portable nanopore sequencing devices—MinION (pocket-sized), GridION (desktop), and PromethION (high-throughput)—capable of ultra‑long DNA/RNA reads without amplification.

PromethION scales up to 48 flow cells, yielding up to ~290 Gb per flow cell, enabling sub‑$1K human genome sequencing on a nanopore-only.

These systems are ideal for fieldwork, rapid diagnostics, large-genome assembly, and epigenetics applications.