Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequenced sludge from 83 plants around the world using sequencing to assemble 53,501 genomes spanning over 12,000 microbial species, most never described before.
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Sewage treatment is not, by most accounts, glamorous work. The bacteria that do it may beg to differ! Sequencing sludge from 83 plants around the world using Oxford Nano…
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere.
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- Biotechnology Research
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- Oxford, GB
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- 1,001–5,000 employees
About Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford. The company now employs more than 1000 employees from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Francis Van Parys, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies is for Research Use Only (RUO) and is not intended for use in diagnostic procedures
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies introduced the Direct RNA Barcoding Kit, allowing multiple samples to be analysed together in practice.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies attended the Genomics India Conference 2026, featuring speakers including Pritam Sarkhel, Shivang Agarwal, Harpreet Kukreja, Jawahar Swaminathan, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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