[NextGenSeq]

You could check their website.

https://www.nanoporetech.com/news/events

ASHG 2013. Oxford Nanopore will be exhibiting at ASHG 2013 in Boston, 22-26 October. http://www.ashg.org/2013meeting/

[BBoy]

They just raised $64 Million this month: http://nextgenseek.com/2013/10/oxfor...es-64-million/ Clearly investors must have seen something that we do not have access to (yet).

Maybe they were shown the foils from AGBT 2011 :-)

[GenoMax]

I'm guessing


Either they release something, or risk losing funding from investors at this point. My bet is that they release the Minion sooner than the Gridion.

They just raised $64 Million this month: http://nextgenseek.com/2013/10/oxfor...es-64-million/ Clearly investors must have seen something that we do not have access to (yet).

[bstamps]

I'm guessing


A) 100%
B) 75/25. Either they release something, or risk losing funding from investors at this point. My bet is that they release the Minion sooner than the Gridion.

[GenoMax]

Hopefully they are not going to wait till illumina's "right to negotiate" expire at end of 2016?

[GW_OK]

So.
ASHG next week.
Any care to give odds on ONT:
A) Being present?
B) Announcing anything? (Announcing no announcements does not count)

To aid in your handicapping, a certain Clive Brown tweeted:

Clive G. Brown @Clive_G_Brown 9 Oct

I've reluctantly rejoined twitter purely so that I can make one tweet - when the appropriate time arises ...

Also, it appears the Minion is now sporting a new look.

[GenoMax]

Given that they are continuously screening new and better pores and that is in fact one of the cool things about a biological nanopore (just like other sequencing companies regularly screen for new polymerases), I didn't necessarily see that as reflective of where they are in the product development pipeline.

No argument there.

We all hope they will stop the screening at some point and release the first product we can use.

[nickloman]

Seriously though, having been through the bring up of a single molecule sequencer...if the CTO is opining in a bar to a blogger about improving consensus accuracy by throwing in multiple types of pores...they are a LONG way from finalizing a chemistry, let alone stabilizing and commercializing it.

Just to note I added a clarification from Clive at the bottom of the post on that particular point...

Given that they are continuously screening new and better pores and that is in fact one of the cool things about a biological nanopore (just like other sequencing companies regularly screen for new polymerases), I didn't necessarily see that as reflective of where they are in the product development pipeline.

[GenoMax]

And I hope I'm not off Clive's list.

Perhaps not before this post.

But now you can't be sure

[ECO]

Waaaaaa we made promises we couldn't keep to get attention and funding...and now people expect us to keep them!

<tiny violin playing>

Seriously though, having been through the bring up of a single molecule sequencer...if the CTO is opining in a bar to a blogger about improving consensus accuracy by throwing in multiple types of pores...they are a LONG way from finalizing a chemistry, let alone stabilizing and commercializing it.

Happy to eat words. Actually I love having my pessimism proven wrong.

And I hope I'm not off Clive's list. I could do some long range clinical haplotyping pretty easily!

[Jeremy]

http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2013/03/a-chat-with-oxford-nanopores-clive-brown-at-agbt-2013[/url])
“We didn’t even know that long reads were so important to people until after that AGBT presentation.”

Really? I find that hard to believe.

[seqnextgen]

What? You weren't out on the strand digging through sand like a madman?

I thought it was a joke originally, obviously, pathogenomics did find a MiniIon in AGBT. This is probably more comprehensive non-update one can find now

http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2013/03/a-chat-with-oxford-nanopores-clive-brown-at-agbt-2013/

[GW_OK]

What? You weren't out on the strand digging through sand like a madman?

I confess that I did stroll through the beach area around the suites (on my way to my next meeting! I was going through there anyway, honest!) looking for disturbed sand patches.

I should have been stalking the bar, apparently.

[BBoy]

What? You weren't out on the strand digging through sand like a madman?

Apparently we have all been asleep at the wheel. The minion has been out for decades, the first model has even made it to a museum:

http://core-genomics.blogspot.com/2013/03/oxford-nanopore-chip-announced.html

[krobison]

AFAIK, nothing..... no data, no status update, not even a cool USB sequencer full with data found in a bar

What? You weren't out on the strand digging through sand like a madman?