The document summarizes experiments using the Oxford Nanopore MinION portable sequencing device to perform real-time pathogen identification and outbreak tracking. Key points:
- Within 40 minutes, Nanopore sequencing allowed identification of Salmonella enterica strains as the serotype Enteritidis. Within 100 minutes, outbreak strains were identified as part of a national cluster while sporadic cases were identified.
- De novo assembly of Nanopore reads produced a single contig genome with 98.5% accuracy which was polished to 99.5% accuracy.
- Validation experiments on archived Ebola RNA using Nanopore direct metagenomics achieved 89.1% genome coverage in 3 hours, allowing real-time pathogen identification and