Oxford Nanopore DNA Sequencer Delayed by Technical Glitches
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., the U.K. company in a race with Illumina Inc. and Life Technologies Corp. to develop smaller, cheaper and quicker gene-sequencing devices, is facing technical setbacks.
Oxford Nanopore, based in Oxford, England, has had to redesign components of a custom sensor because it wasn’t performing satisfactorily, and that has lengthened development and testing periods, according to a post yesterday on the blog Pathogens: Genes and Genomes. The blog is found on the University of Birmingham’s website and written by Nick Loman, a doctor who is a bioinformatics specialist at the English university.