December 15, 2020
By Allison Proffitt
December 15, 2020 | Sequencing in the palm of your hand is now a reality. Oxford Nanopore’s MinION is a handheld sequencer that has been used “in the field” to sequence genomic materials in Africa in the middle of the Ebola outbreak, in South America during the Zika outbreak, and even on the International Space Station. But even as the sequencers are spitting out reads, that’s not solving the analysis problem.
iGenomics can do that for you.
In a paper published in
GigaScience (DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa138), a team of researchers presents what they call the first comprehensive mobile genome analysis application, with capabilities to align reads, call variants, and visualize the results entirely on an iOS device. What started as a high school student’s internship project is now freely available in the App Store.