{"id":118441,"date":"2021-01-12T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T01:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-method-helps-pocket-sized-dna-sequencer-achieve-near-perfect-accuracy"},"modified":"2021-01-12T17:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T01:24:41","slug":"new-method-helps-pocket-sized-dna-sequencer-achieve-near-perfect-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-method-helps-pocket-sized-dna-sequencer-achieve-near-perfect-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"New method helps pocket-sized DNA sequencer achieve near-perfect accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-helps-pocket-sized-dna-sequencer-achieve-near-perfect-accuracy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found a simple way to eliminate almost all sequencing errors produced by a widely used portable DNA sequencer, potentially enabling scientists working outside the lab to study and track microorganisms like the SARS-CoV-2 virus more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>Using special molecular tags, the team was able to reduce the five-to-15 percent error rate of Oxford Nanopore Technologies\u2019 MinION device to less than 0.005 percent\u2014even when sequencing many long stretches of DNA at a time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MinION has revolutionized the field of genomics by freeing DNA sequencing from the confines of large laboratories,\u201d says Ryan Ziels, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of British Columbia and the co-lead author of the study, which was published this week in <i>Nature Methods<\/i>. \u201cBut until now, researchers haven\u2019t been able to rely on the device in many settings because of its fairly high out-of-the-box error rate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found a simple way to eliminate almost all sequencing errors produced by a widely used portable DNA sequencer, potentially enabling scientists working outside the lab to study and track microorganisms like the SARS-CoV-2 virus more efficiently. Using special molecular tags, the team was able to reduce the five-to-15 percent error rate of Oxford [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}