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Sequencing a Genome at Home — The Full ONT MinION Workflow
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | the home-seq blog, “How I sequenced my genome at home”; Mark Tyson, Tom’s Hardware (2026); Oxford Nanopore’s MinION product page; Oxford Nanopore’s price list; the UK Biobank Whole-Genome Sequencing Consortium, Nature (2025) |
| Timeline | Oxford Nanopore’s announcement at its London Calling conference (2024); the home-seq blog, “How I sequenced my genome at home”; Mark Tyson, Tom’s Hardware (2026) |
| The Argument | the home-seq blog, “How I sequenced my genome at home”; the UK Biobank Whole-Genome Sequencing Consortium, Nature (2025); Illumina’s NovaSeq 6000 specifications |
| What Others Add | the home-seq blog, “How I sequenced my genome at home”; Oxford Nanopore’s MinION product page; Oxford Nanopore’s accuracy documentation; Oxford Nanopore’s flow-cell documentation; Oxford Nanopore’s price list; the Dorado basecaller documentation; Illumina’s NovaSeq 6000 specifications |
| Conclusion | the home-seq blog, “How I sequenced my genome at home”; Oxford Nanopore’s price list; the UK Biobank Whole-Genome Sequencing Consortium, Nature (2025) |
What the evidence base looks like
- 10Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 9Read in full
- 1Read as a search extract only
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturers’ own product, price and technical pages | 7 | Six read in full; one, a conference announcement, only as a search extract, and used for a single date |
| The account the article is about | 1 | Read in full; it gives only a handle for a byline, and no date |
| Peer-reviewed scholarship | 1 | Read in full, open access |
| News reporting | 1 | Read in full |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing