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11 May 2015
This story mistakenly stated that the MinION device has problems reading long, repetitive regions of DNA sequence. It should have said that those difficulties occur in sections of genome that are rich in long stretches of a single DNA base. The text has now been corrected.
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Check Hayden, E. Pint-sized DNA sequencer impresses first users. Nature 521, 15–16 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/521015a
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