Relative performance of Oxford Nanopore MinION vs. Pacific Biosciences Sequel third-generation sequencing platforms in identification of agricultural and forest pathogens
K. Loit, K. Adamson, M. Bahram, R. Puusepp, S. Anslan, R. Kiiker, R. Drenkhan, L. Tedersoo
This study compares MinION and PacBio Sequel for pathogen identification in plants, finding MinION suitable for rapid diagnostics but less effective for complex metabarcoding due to high error rates.
bioRxiv · Mar 30, 2019Microbiology