Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc provided updates to its clinical product pipeline, unveiling a new roadmap for its first IVD product ahead of its first clinical and biopharma day.
Technology updates included: Delivering increasingly rich, high performance multiomic data: The update focused on improved performance on accuracy, delivering complete genomes with nanopore-only Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) sequencing, and full-length chromosomes in a single read, illustrated by successful T2T reads of four yeast chromosomes as proof of concept. Improving direct RNA sequencing to support breakthrough science and biopharma workflows: higher accuracy and output for direct RNA sequencing alongside the example of integrated, real-time quality control (QC) test for mRNA vaccines. Pipeline updates, enabling ultra-high output and accessible, distributed sequencing for anyone, anywhere: with the MinION Mk1D entering early access, continued progression with TraxION, enabling portable library prep in the field, the Voltage chip for ultra-rapid whole genome sequencing (WGS)and the new prototype of Oxford Nanopore's smallest sequencer to date - the SmidgION - which was on display at the event.