The Promise of Nanopore Technology: Nanopore DNA sequencing represents a fundamental change in the way that genomic information is read, with potentially big savings.

For those following DNA sequencing trends closely, nanopores have been something of a buzzword for a number of years, representing a theoretical platform for fast, cheap, and ubiquitous DNA sequencing. Nanopore sequencing is now becoming a reality, but since the concept was introduced, other technologies have reduced sequencing costs by several orders of magnitude, raising the bar for success.