Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/843136 (2019). Chem. Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Translational Research newsletter top stories in biotechnology, drug discovery and pharma. Chromosomal-level assembly of the blood clam, Scapharca (Anadara) broughtonii, using long sequence reads and Hi-C. Gigascience 8, giz067 (2019). Biotechnol. In Illumina sequencing, an adapter-ligated DNA library is captured using surface-bound complementary oligonucleotides and later amplified into distinct, clonal clusters by bridge amplification . SQANTI: extensive characterization of long-read transcript sequences for quality control in full-length transcriptome identification and quantification. 28, 789803 (2021). Bao, E., Xie, F., Song, C. & Song, D. FLAS: fast and high-throughput algorithm for PacBio long-read self-correction. Genome Res. & Branton, D. Rapid nanopore discrimination between single polynucleotide molecules. Gong, L., Wong, C. H., Idol, J., Ngan, C. Y. Biotechnol. Manrao, E. A. et al. MinION Analysis and Reference Consortium: phase 1 data release and analysis. De novo clustering of long reads by gene from transcriptomics data. 12, 3438 (2021). Algorithms Mol. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner. ONT sequencing has been applied to many cancer types, including leukemia188,189,190,191,192, breast33,176,193, brain193, colorectal194, pancreatic195 and lung196 cancers, to identify genomic variants of interests, especially large and complex ones. 2020 IEEE Intl. PromethION is designed to use up to 48 flow cells, each capable of generating up to 290 Gb per flow cell for large-scale projects requiring ultra-high throughput. Biotechnol. the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Brickwedde, A. et al. Biol. Int. When ions, or charged particles, move, they create an . Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.27.921338 (2020). ONT also offers a direct cDNA sequencing protocol without PCR amplification, in contrast to many existing cDNA sequencing methods. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.28.446147 (2021). Ann. FEMS Yeast Res. In addition, same-day detection of fusion genes in clinical specimens has also been demonstrated by MinION cDNA sequencing198. The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing. Magi, A., Semeraro, R., Mingrino, A., Giusti, B. Bioinformatics 36, 50005006 (2020). Alternatively, a cDNA strand can be synthesized to obtain an RNAcDNA hybrid duplex, followed by ligation of the adapter. Clin. Nanopore sequencing technology and its applications in basic and applied research have undergone substantial growth since Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) provided the first nanopore sequencer, MinION, in 2014 (refs. Sci. Cancer Biol. Heller, D. & Vingron, M. SVIM: structural variant identification using mapped long reads. Kan Liu-Challenges in Transcriptome Applications Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Challenges in Transcriptome Applications Using Nanopore RNA sequencing ChIP-Seq: advantages and challenges of a maturing RNA-Seq is revolutionary in its abilities to provide precision in Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 10, 260 (2019). 34, 518524 (2016). Deamer, D., Akeson, M. & Branton, D. Three decades of nanopore sequencing. ysis, with a focus on understanding the advantages, disadvantages, and bottlenecks of them. BMC Bioinformatics 17, 107 (2016). Norris, A. L., Workman, R. E., Fan, Y., Eshleman, J. R. & Timp, W. Nanopore sequencing detects structural variants in cancer. PLoS ONE 7, e46679 (2012). & Au, K. F. A comparative evaluation of hybrid error correction methods for error-prone long reads. Bowden, R. et al. To further remove errors, error correction of long reads and polishing of assembled draft genomes (that is, improving accuracy of consensus sequences using raw current data) are often performed before and after assembly, respectively. GigaScience 8, giz043 (2019 . Determination of isoform-specific RNA structure with nanopore long reads. Each current segment contains multiple measurements, and the corresponding mean, variance and duration of the current measurements together make up the event data. If you mean a whole human genome or another organism with a good reference, then the default answer is Illumina. MinION characterized pathogenic microbes, virulence genes and antimicrobial resistance markers in the polluted Little Bighorn River, Montana, United States230. Miten Jain, Robin Abu-Shumays, Mark Akeson, Charlotte Soneson, Yao Yao, Shobbir Hussain, Sam Kovaka, Yunfan Fan, Michael C. Schatz, Rachael E. Workman, Alison D. Tang, Winston Timp, Alexander Payne, Nadine Holmes, Matthew Loose, Balzs Kakuk, Dra Tombcz, Zsolt Boldogki, Nature Biotechnology A technology-agnostic long-read analysis pipeline for transcriptome discovery and quantification. Genome Biol. Two other experimental assays, DiMeLo-seq181 and BIND&MODIFY182, use ONT sequencing to map histone modifications (H3K9me3 and H3K27me3), a histone variant (CENP-A) and other specific proteinDNA interactions (for example, CTCF binding profile). Nanotechnol. Microbiol Antimicrob. It's also less computationally expensive and m. Sequencing is done in multiple . 1,9), was the first nanopore shown to detect recognizable ionic current blockades by both RNA and DNA homopolymers10,11,12. The longest individual read is 2,273kb, rescued by correcting an error in the software MinKNOW49. Li, H. Minimap and miniasm: fast mapping and de novo assembly for noisy long sequences. Laszlo, A. H. et al. Huang, N. et al. 21, 30 (2020). Armstrong, E. E. et al. The classifications are further categorized by specific topics, and the slice area is proportional to the number of publications (in log2 scale). Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.20.440583 (2021). Targeted nanopore sequencing with Cas9-guided adapter ligation. Deonovic, B., Wang, Y., Weirather, J., Wang, X. J. Detecting DNA cytosine methylation using nanopore sequencing. 37, 540546 (2019). A systematic benchmark of Nanopore long read RNA sequencing for transcript level analysis in human cell lines. Rapid de novo assembly of the European eel genome from nanopore sequencing reads. Leggett, R. M. & Clark, M. D. A world of opportunities with nanopore sequencing. 11, 10 (2016). Both fast5 and fastq files are output if the base-calling mode is applied during the sequencing experiment. Chemother. Biological Adaptation (060303): Biological Sciences . These breakthroughs have required extensive development of experimental and bioinformatics methods to fully exploit nanopore long reads for investigations of genomes, transcriptomes, epigenomes and epitranscriptomes. 49, e7 (2020). Jeck, W. R. et al. Public Health 16, 1097 (2019). and JavaScript. 11, 25 (2019). Science 363, 7477 (2019). Biol. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.10.243543 (2020). Schmidt, K. et al. This perspective on nanopore sequencing and an accompanying one on sequencing by synthesis technologies present current views on these challenges to the broader community of scientists and engineers, with a goal of engaging them to find solutions. Combining up to 24 independently addressable, high-capacity flow cells with powerful, integrated compute, PromethION 24 delivers flexible, on-demand access to terabases of sequencing data ideal for cost-effective, high-throughput sequencing. Chem. Nat. Transcriptome variation in human tissues revealed by long-read sequencing. Soc. Assemblers (Table 1) such as Canu88 and Miniasm107 are based on the overlaplayoutconsensus algorithm, which builds a graph by overlapping similar sequences and is robust to sequencing error58,67,108 (Fig. Methods 15, 455460 (2018). Au, C. H. et al. a, Timeline of the major chemistry and platform releases by ONT. 12, 3032 (2021). Commun. Portable ONT devices have also been used for on-site metagenomics research. Similarly, several other methods have combined various biochemical techniques with ONT sequencing (Table 1). However, ONT no longer offers or supports the 2D and 1D2 libraries. The long reads ahead: de novo genome assembly using the MinION. A comprehensive examination of Nanopore native RNA sequencing for characterization of complex transcriptomes. 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies 272277 (BIOSTEC, 2016). Nanopore sensors are based on electronics and can be scaled to any size device, to be used in any environment. Here, we focus on the current advantages as well as the limitations of the ONT nanopore sequencer, reviewing research publications available thus far. Duke, J. L. et al. RNA 26, 1928 (2020). 20, 239 (2019). Nat. Phased diploid genome assembly with single-molecule real-time sequencing. Indeed, this motor protein provided the last piece of the puzzle; in February 2012, two groups demonstrated processive recordings of ionic currents for single-stranded DNA molecules that could be resolved into signals from individual nucleotides by combining phi29 DNA polymerase and a nanopore (-hemolysin24 and MspA25). Brandler, W. M. et al. Only three PromethION flow cells were required to sequence the human genome, requiring <6h for the computational assembly164. Commun. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.31.126763 (2020). Liu, Q. et al. Biotechnol. Rapid draft sequencing and real-time nanopore sequencing in a hospital outbreak of Salmonella. Evaluation of the detection of GBA missense mutations and other variants using the Oxford Nanopore MinION. The sequences generated by PacBio or Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) be assembled de novo before further analyses. Gershow, M. & Golovchenko, J. . Evol. Only 1560min of sequencing per sample was required220. These tools can be used with data from various techniques, from Nanopore sequencing to PacBio, even in high-fidelity reads . The complete sequence of a human genome. 1129, 143150 (2019). & Simpson, J. T. A complete bacterial genome assembled de novo using only nanopore sequencing data. 17, e1009078 (2021). 39, 336346 (2020). Evaluating nanopore sequencing data processing pipelines for structural variation identification. To obtain 9, 4844 (2018). To meet the needs of different project scales, ONT released several platforms (Box 1). 132, 1796117972 (2010). Lind, A. L. et al. Jiang, F. et al. Nat. Recently, ONT was applied to characterize the methylomes from different biological samples, such as 6mA in a microbial reference community174 as well as 5mC and 6mA in E. coli, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and human genomes76. Liu, Y. et al. Amplicon based MinION sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 and metagenomic characterisation of nasopharyngeal swabs from patients with COVID-19. 05386273 | VAT No 336942382. The width of each layer is proportional to the number of publications (in log2 scale). Biophys. Huang, N., Nie, F., Ni, P., Luo, F. & Wang, J. SACall: a neural network basecaller for Oxford Nanopore sequencing data based on self-attention mechanism. Ni, P. et al. De novo identification of DNA modifications enabled by genome-guided nanopore signal processing. Sahlin, K. & Mkinen, V. Accurate spliced alignment of long RNA sequencing reads. 28, 266274 (2018). Salazar, A. N. et al. Price, A. M. et al. As nucleotides pass through the nanopore, a characteristic current change is measured and is used to determine the corresponding nucleotide type at ~450 bases per s (R9.4 nanopore). Zhang, Y. et al. In contrast to the previous DNA translocation tests that were poorly controlled13,14,15,16,17, the addition of the motor protein reduced the fluctuations in translocation kinetics, thus improving data quality. PubMed Nat. . Biotechnol. The PromethION 2 devices are designed to be compact and accessible, utilising 2 PromethION Flow Cells that can generate hundreds of gigabases of data each. There have been several other nanopore-based sequencing ventures, such as Genia Technologiess nanotag-based real-time sequencing by synthesis (Nano-SBS) technology, NobleGen Biosciencess optipore system and Quantum Biosystemss sequencing by electronic tunneling (SBET) technology27,28. This technology makes for a high throughput, cost effective sequencing solution. Russell, J. However, the R9.4 and R9.5 have difficulty sequencing very long homopolymer runs because the current signal of CsgG is determined by approximately five consecutive nucleotides. Nanopore DNA sequencing and genome assembly on the International Space Station. Rapid detection of chromosomal translocation and precise breakpoint characterization in acute myeloid leukemia by nanopore long-read sequencing. Vaser, R., Sovic, I., Nagarajan, N. & Sikic, M. Fast and accurate de novo genome assembly from long uncorrected reads. These approaches would allow investigation of the heterogeneity and dynamics of the epigenome and epitranscriptome as well as analysis of allele-specific and/or strand-specific epigenomic and epitranscriptomic phenomena. Long-read sequencing identified intronic repeat expansions in SAMD12 from Chinese pedigrees affected with familial cortical myoclonic tremor with epilepsy. . Cell 77, 985998 (2020). Nanopore sequencing is the only sequencing technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats, can analyse native DNA or RNA, and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. 16, 114 (2015). PubMed Central Tarraga, J., Gallego, A., Arnau, V., Medina, I. For instance, ONT data alone were used to assemble the first genome of Rhizoctonia solani (a pathogenic fungal species that causes damping-off diseases in a wide range of crops)142, and hybrid sequencing data (ONT plus Illumina) were used to assemble the first draft genomes of Maccullochella peelii (Australias largest freshwater fish)143 and Amphiprion ocellaris (the common clown fish)144. Moreover, ONT enabled the first gapless telomere-to-telomere assembly of the human X chromosome, including reconstruction of a ~2.8Mb centromeric satellite DNA array and closing of all remaining 29 gaps (totaling 1.1Mb)134. Sci. In parallel, accuracy has been improved through new base-calling algorithms, including many developed through independent research32,44 (see below). 30, 299312 (2020). DeepSignal: detecting DNA methylation state from Nanopore sequencing reads using deep-learning. Ducluzeau, A., Lekanoff, R. M., Khalsa, N. S., Smith, H. H. & Drown, D. M. Introducing DNA sequencing to the next generation on a research vessel sailing the Bering Sea through a storm. A. et al. The advantage of the nanopore sequencing technology is that you obtain real-time sequencing results. Gigascience 7, 16 (2018). The axolotl genome and the evolution of key tissue formation regulators. Genome Res. J. Thromb. 37, 783792 (2019). For example, the integration and automation of DNA/RNA extraction systems, sequencing library preparation and loading systems would allow users without specific training to generate ONT sequencing data. 45, e32 (2017). Proc. Similarly, multiple epigenetic features, including the endogenous 5mC methylome (at CpG sites), nucleosome occupancy and chromatin accessibility, can be simultaneously characterized on single long human DNA molecules by MeSMLR-seq (K.F.A., unpublished data, and ref. Fukasawa, Y., Ermini, L., Wang, H., Carty, K. & Cheung, M. S. LongQC: a quality control tool for third generation sequencing long read data. Senol Cali, D., Kim, J. S., Ghose, S., Alkan, C. & Mutlu, O. Nanopore sequencing technology and tools for genome assembly: computational analysis of the current state, bottlenecks and future directions. Genet. In addition, ONT direct RNA sequencing has been used to construct RNA viral genomes while eliminating the need for the conventional reverse transcription step, including Mayaro virus150, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus150, chikungunya virus150, Zika virus150, vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus150, Oropouche virus150, influenza A53 and human coronavirus86. & Au, K. F. PacBio sequencing and its applications. For both Illumina and Nanopore, BLAST resulted in approximately 87 and 97% of reads being correctly classified, for animals and plants respectively. Kwan, H. H. et al. In the example of bacterial meningitis, 16S amplicon sequencing took only 10min using MinION to identify pathogenic bacteria in all six retrospective cases, making MinION particularly useful for the early administration of antibiotics through timely detection of bacterial infections199. This special adapter provides a high probability (>60%) that the complement strand will immediately be captured by the same nanopore after the template strand, offering similar consensus sequence generation for dsDNA as the 2D library. J. Comput. The authors also apologize that the very latest research published during the publication process of this article was not included. Altschul, S. F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E. W. & Lipman, D. J. Maitra, R. D., Kim, J. The Illumina sequencing technique, like the other second generation techniques, is based on three main steps: Construction of a library for next generation techniques (NGS) which involves the addition of specific adapters to the DNA or cDNA fragments to be sequenced. Bai, C. M. et al. Bioinformatics 35, 39533960 (2019). Fungus includes Candida auris, bacterium includes Salmonella, Neisseria meningitidis and Klebsiella pneumoniae and virus includes severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Ebola, Zika, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, yellow fever, Lassa fever and dengue; HLA, human leukocyte antigens. In addition to sequencing length and accuracy, throughput is another important consideration for ONT sequencing applications. Sahlin, K. & Medvedev, P. De novo clustering of long-read transcriptome data using a greedy, quality value-based algorithm. Liu, C. et al. Commun. A major advantage of nanopore sequencing is the ability to produce ultra-long reads, and over 2 Mb read lengths have been achieved. Automated forward and reverse ratcheting of DNA in a nanopore at 5-A precision. Diagn. Nat. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.18.426757 (2021). Loman, N. J., Quick, J. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/006395 (2014). In recent years long-read technologies have moved from being a niche and specialist field to a point of relative maturity likely to feature frequently in the genomic landscape. In this work, we show that . Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/720458 (2019). Stoddart, D., Maglia, G., Mikhailova, E., Heron, A. J. Publishers note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. . Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.06.371799 (2021). Read lengths are reported for 1D reads. J. Vis. De novo assembly of the olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) genome with linked-reads and long-read technologies minimizes gaps and provides exceptional Y chromosome assembly. Sci. Special efforts have been made in some studies to achieve ultralong read length. Methods 16, 12971305 (2019). Using the R9.4 nanopore as an example, the average accuracy of 2D reads is 94% versus 86% for 1D reads33 (Fig. Yang, W. & Wang, L. Fast and accurate algorithms for mapping and aligning long reads. & Simpson, G. G. Yanocomp: robust prediction of m6A modifications in individual nanopore direct RNA reads. Mol. Genomics 111, 11081114 (2019). After removing the hairpin sequence, the template and complement reads, called the 1D reads, are used to generate a consensus sequence, called the 2D read, of higher accuracy. 5). Karst, S. M. et al. 10, 31633167 (2010). 21, 253 (2020). 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Nanopore sequencing is the fourth-generation DNA sequencing technology and the significant advantages of nanopores (biological or solid state) include label-free, ultralong reads (10 4 -10 6 bases), high throughput, and low material requirement (Feng et al., 2015). Commun. Rhoads, A. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.06.451383 (2021). 20, 278 (2019). 43, e116 (2015). G3 10, 14771484 (2020). More recently, there has been considerable growth in alignment methods for high-throughput accurate short reads (for example, Illumina sequencing data) in response to the growth in next-generation sequencing. TP53 gene mutation analysis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia by nanopore MinION sequencing. Commun. 37, 651656 (2019). F1000Res 6, 760 (2017). Becton, Dickinson, and Company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Qiagen Bio-Rad F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. BGI 10X Genomics Inc. Fludigim Oxford Nanopore Technologies Illumina Yields are reported for 1D reads. Chatron, N. et al. Our offering includes DNA sequencing, as well as RNA and gene expression analysis and future technology for analysing proteins. Meller, A., Nivon, L., Brandin, E., Golovchenko, J. Methods 14, 411413 (2017). & Vinar, T. DeepNano-blitz: a fast base caller for MinION nanopore sequencers. 29, 13291342 (2019). Chakraborty, A., Morgenstern, B. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of in-field, real-time nanopore sequencing using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) platform. Single-cell isoform RNA sequencing characterizes isoforms in thousands of cerebellar cells. Antimicrobial-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carriage and infection in specialized geriatric care wards linked to acquisition in the referring hospital. Capturing the dynamics of genome replication on individual ultra-long nanopore sequence reads. As early as 2013, independent reports demonstrated that methylated cytosines (5mC and 5hmC) in DNA could be distinguished from native cytosine by the characteristic current signals measured using the MspA nanopore172,173. Weirather, J. L. et al. Methods 14, 10721074 (2017). De Roeck, A. et al. When a small (~100mV) voltage bias is imposed across a nanopore in a membrane separating Sci. Nevertheless, ONT cDNA sequencing was also tested in individual B cells from mice120 and humans122,166. Thus, error correction is widely applied before many downstream analyses (for example, genome assembly and gene isoform identification), which can rescue reads for higher sensitivity (for example, mappability85) and improve the quality of the results (for example, break point determination at single-nucleotide resolution86). De novo yeast genome assemblies from MinION, PacBio and MiSeq platforms. Lorenz, D. A., Sathe, S., Einstein, J. M. & Yeo, G. W. Direct RNA sequencing enables m6A detection in endogenous transcript isoforms at base-specific resolution. Chromosomal-level assembly of Juglans sigillata genome using Nanopore, BioNano, and Hi-C analysis. In addition to official ONT tools (for example, ont_fast5_api software for format conversion between single-fast5 and multi-fast5 and data compression/decompression), several third-party software packages40,58,59,60,61,62 have been developed for quality control, format conversion (for example, NanoR63 for generating fastq files from fast5 files containing sequence information), data exploration and visualization of the raw ONT data (for example, Poretools64, NanoPack65 and PyPore66) and for after base-calling data analyses (for example, AlignQC42 and BulkVis49) (Fig. Wang, M. et al. We review 11 applications that are the subject of the most publications since 2015. Biotechnol. Front. Nanpolish, Megalodon and DeepSignal were recently benchmarked and confirmed to have high accuracy for 5mC detection with single-nucleotide resolution at the single-molecule level79,80. Kim, D. et al. Bioinformatics 30, 35063514 (2014). Likewise, MinION sequencing data revealed BCR-ABL1 kinase domain mutations in 19 individuals with chronic myeloid leukemia and 5 individuals with acute lymphoblastic leukemia with superior sensitivity and time efficiency compared to Sanger sequencing189. Rhodes, J. et al. Liu, Q., Georgieva, D. C., Egli, D. & Wang, K. NanoMod: a computational tool to detect DNA modifications using Nanopore long-read sequencing data. Xu, Z. et al. Kapustova, V. et al. 4, bottom right). More recently, Pacbio and Oxford Nanopore long read sequencing are also being used for assemblies as these reads are 10kb or longer on average. Google Scholar. PubMed Sci. 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The long read length, portability and direct RNA sequencing capability of ONT devices have supported a diverse range of applications (Fig. Amin, M. R., Skiena, S. & Schatz, M. C. NanoBLASTer: fast alignment and characterization of Oxford Nanopore single molecule sequencing reads. Bayega, A. et al. Commun. Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. & Yu, Y. W. Practical probabilistic and graphical formulations of long-read polyploid haplotype phasing. Branton, D. et al. Gorrie, C. L. et al. In forensic research, a portable strategy known as MinION sketching was developed to identify human DNA with only 3min of sequencing232, offering a rapid solution to cell authentication or contamination identification during cell or tissue culture. Bioinformatics 30, 33993401 (2014). Indeed, ONT sequencing is useful for detecting specific species and strains (for example, virulent ones) from microbiome samples given the unambiguous mappability of longer reads, which provides accurate estimates of microbiome composition compared to the conventional studies relying on 16S rRNA and DNA amplicons57,206. NeuralPolish: a novel Nanopore polishing method based on alignment matrix construction and orthogonal Bi-GRU Networks. 21, 189 (2020). Compared to PacBio, ONT performs better in detecting 5mC but has lower accuracy in detecting 6mA68,75,81. Nat. From genome assembly to gene expression, run multiple experiments on-demand using 5 independent MinION flow cells. Unlike the 2D library, the complement strand in the 1D2 library is not guaranteed to follow the template, resulting in imperfect consensus sequence generation. 27, 747756 (2017). Miao, H. et al. Longer reads are also useful when assembling genomes that include large stretches of repetitive regions. Liu, H. et al. Nat. The significant advantages of nanopore seq. Gigascience 8, giz038 (2019). Revealing nascent RNA processing dynamics with nano-COP. Nat. Genome Biol. 16, e1007981 (2020). Cockroft, S. L., Chu, J., Amorin, M. & Ghadiri, M. R. A single-molecule nanopore device detects DNA polymerase activity with single-nucleotide resolution. 27, 472484 (2020). Weirather, J. L. et al. EBioMedicine 42, 133144 (2019). IEEE Trans Nanotechnol. 56, 265270 (2019). Nanotechnol. Some genome de novo assemblers have been developed to assemble long reads . The applications are also organized by the corresponding strengths of ONT sequencing as three layers of the pie chart: (1) long read length, (2) native single molecule and (3) portable, affordable and real time. Genomic detection of a virus lineage replacement event of dengue virus serotype 2 in Brazil, 2019. 7 (World Scientific Press, 2019). Expression analysis and Reference Consortium: phase 1 data release and analysis, 2016 ) a world opportunities. 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