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Reading DNA by pulling it through a tiny pore and measuring the electrical current.
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Jain and colleagues summarised the portable Oxford Nanopore MinION, with reads exceeding 150 kilobases and in-field pathogen detection.
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As reported in: Jain, Olsen, Paten et al. (2016). The Oxford Nanopore MinION: delivery of nanopore sequencing to the genomics community. Genome Biology. doi:10.1186/s13059-016-1103-0
Kasianowicz and colleagues showed an electric field drives single strands of RNA and DNA through a 2.6 nm channel, with blockade duration proportional to length.
As reported in: Kasianowicz, Brandin, Branton et al. (1996). Characterization of individual polynucleotide molecules using a membrane channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.24.13770