Thursday, October 11, 2018

Real-Time DNA Sequencing in the Palm of Your Hand

UK startup Oxford Nanopore Technologies is speeding the discovery of pathogens with its MinION device, a portable, low-cost, real-time DNA and RNA sequencer. The MinION connects to the just-introduced MinIT hand-held AI supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA AGX, and runs sequence analysis in real time, anywhere — even in the field.