Forum:A Chat With Oxford Nanopore’S Clive Brown At Agbt 2013

Question

[Damian Kao]

A new entry in Nick Loman's blog about his chat with Clive Brown:

http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2013/03/a-chat-with-oxford-nanopores-clive-brown-at-agbt-2013/

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

Great writing in this blog post - makes for a very entertaining read.

[Dan]

But what do you think of the reasons for the delays?

[Istvan Albert]

well who knows really - but this below sounds worrisome

Clive has a list. A list of people that says he’ll see to it won’t get a MinIon when it comes out. I can’t tell if he’s joking.

that only makes sense if they do not actually have a product to sell and if they are still operating with the mindset of having to raise more investment rather than demonstrate the feasibility of the product.

[Sebastian Kurscheid]

it does. but I am a little bit amazed by some of the apparent naivety about... “We didn’t even know that long reads were so important to people until after that AGBT presentation.”

Answer 2

[Casey Bergman]

It looks like this inside info was supposed to be "off the record": http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-07/oxford-nanopore-s-gene-sequencer-facing-technical-delays.html

[Damian Kao]

I guess we know who is going to be on Clive's list.