We’ve been attempting to sequence tree pollen with a MinION. Anna (an MSc student supervised by Si Creer, Georgina Brennan and myself) has done an amazing job to get air samples containing tree pollen extracted and into a fit state to run on the sequencer. We had to use whole genome amplification to get to usable quantities of DNA, but the MinION is churning out data now!
Sequencing thin air (sort of)
