PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - John M. Urban AU - Jacob Bliss AU - Charles E. Lawrence AU - Susan A. Gerbi TI - Sequencing ultra-long DNA molecules with the Oxford Nanopore MinION AID - 10.1101/019281 DP - 2015 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 019281 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/05/13/019281.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/05/13/019281.full AB - Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ nanopore sequencing device, the MinION, holds the promise of sequencing ultra-long DNA fragments >100kb. An obstacle to realizing this promise is delivering ultra-long DNA molecules to the nanopores. We present our progress in developing cost-effective ways to overcome this obstacle and our resulting MinION data, including multiple reads >100kb.