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It is called MinION, it costs about as much as the new iphone. This will have very big implications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4060
The ability to sequence using a portable device that only costs $1,000 may also put personalized genome sequencing into the mainstream.
“This is a landmark for genomics. The long reads that are possible with nanopore sequencing will provide us with a much clearer picture of the overall structure and organization of the genome than ever before,” said corresponding author Matt Loose of the University of Nottingham.
“If you imagine the process of assembling a genome together is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle, the ability to produce extremely long sequencing reads is like finding very large pieces of the puzzle, which makes the process far less complex,” added Nick Loman of University of Birmingham, also a corresponding author.
https://news.ucsc.edu/2018/01/nanopore-genome.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4060