Is PromethION a Strategic Error?

Be prepared for another burst of Oxford Nanopore coverage; their annual Community Meeting in New York City begins on Thursday (perhaps while you are reading this).  I won't be attending; only so many absences from the day job are ultimately feasible each year, and I've long since hit the limit.  Hopefully some prolific tweeters will keep everyone updated, and I can summarize from there.As with most posts on Oxford Nanopore, mypiece on the closure of the Illumina litigationcaptured some comments; I think it is reasonable to expect more on thepiece on the opening of litigation by Pacific Biosciences.  How you perceive the ambiguity around whether they were using an MspA pore in the R6 and R7 chemistries or not tends close to a Rorschach test.  But with that behind us, attention can focus on their current state and progress. Now, I'm going to project some critical ideas around one of their platform pieces, but I have no delusions that they will affect Oxford's course.  It wouldn't shock me if Clive had a tart seven letter response, the only question being if the last three letters form a pronoun or a preposition. I don't have any inside information nor do I have any direct financial interest in the company, in case you are wondering.  As my title suggests, what I'm going to argue is the case that pursuing the launch of the PromethION instrument is an unnecessarily risky detour.Read more »
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