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Oxford Nanopore MinION has started reaching the hands the researchers, who were selected for the first wave of Oxford Nanopore’s Early Access Program to try out MinION. And so begins nanopore sequencing experiments.

Thanks to Mick Watson and Nick Loman. The lucky researchers started announcing the arrival of spring gift on Twitter. So far, it looks like MinION has not crossed the Atlantic ocean yet :) And as expected, MinION is tiny and runs (only?) on Windows machine . Corrected. Nick Loman has successfully tried using Mac parallels (against the instructions from Nanopore?).

Happy long read Nanopore sequencing folks!

Oxford Nanopore MinION Timeline

In case you missed all the actions from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, here is the brief timeline of Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ MinION.

Santa is coming for many of you tomorrow. In April. #MinION — Mick Watson (@BioMickWatson) April 9, 2014

You & me, gonna have some fun :-) pic.twitter.com/wm6Godq8ep — Jonathan Coxhead (@4130chromo) April 10, 2014

Santa has just arrived #minion — Mick Watson (@BioMickWatson) April 11, 2014

Fera has a new DNA sequencer. Meet the MinION pic.twitter.com/ZtKmg0OmUJ — Ian Adams (@IPAdams) April 10, 2014

#minion in transit… sad to have the lab far away and wait one extra day @nanopore — Andreas Sjödin (@druvus) April 11, 2014

Are you ready for third-generation single molecule sequencing? Very excited to be working with @nanopore #MinION pic.twitter.com/3BQCmjRJnV — Edinburgh Genomics (@edgenome) April 14, 2014

On Monday 14 April, MinIONs crossed the Atlantic ocean to find a home in Boston.

The minION does well in the pretty blindly lights category. pic.twitter.com/ijzo31j1u0 — Aaron Quinlan (@aaronquinlan) April 14, 2014

It arrived! My @nanopore MinION arrived! This is a DNA sequencer, people! pic.twitter.com/jwLstVt9HR — Karen James (@kejames) April 14, 2014

These ‘buy two, get one free’ offers are always so tempting. pic.twitter.com/oRFYJKxGEX — Keith Bradnam (@kbradnam) April 14, 2014

If it doesn’t have a flashing blue light, then it’s ‘PGS’ (previous generation sequencing). pic.twitter.com/YpWEiTYf1g — Keith Bradnam (@kbradnam) April 14, 2014

‘For Research Use Only’? Aww. But I wanna let my MinION play with all the other sequencers. pic.twitter.com/uvCwJJ32bt — Keith Bradnam (@kbradnam) April 14, 2014