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Nanopore development at Oxford Nanopore

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Kasianowicz and Bezrukov1 raise several questions in relation to the retrospective by Deamer et al.2 that only we at Oxford Nanopore (Abingdon, UK) are in a position to address. As things stand, there is only one commercially available nanopore sequencing product family and Oxford Nanopore, its manufacturer, has the best view of how it was developed.

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