In Excess of One Million: A Milestone in DNA Sequencing

On December 14, 2017, The Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia, acknowledged the achievement of a milestone by some of its researchers on the DNA sequencing front. The institute’s researchers, led by Martin A. Smith, head of genomic technologies in the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, announced on Twitter that they had sequenced a single DNA read of more than one million bases long using the increasingly popular minION nanopore sequencing device from U.K.-based Oxford Nanopore Techn