Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips)
Dr. John Tyson, a minION instructor and research associate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, demonstrated a minION during a training of scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research. The minION is a sequencing system made by Oxford Nanopore Technology. Basically, it’s a handheld device into which a sample is placed and then within minutes the sample’s genome is translated into one’s laptop.