New blog post with some thoughts on @nanoporetech.com and their recent announcement that the P2 Solo will be discontinued: rrwick.github.io/2026/01/21/p...

Well... community post confirms it: ONT is getting rid of P2 Solo, their most cost-effective platform. By transitioning to P2i-only and "contact for quotes" purchase models, ONT is now in the realm of the sequencing companies that they initially claimed to be distancing themselves from.

D-P-SCH project (@inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social funded) generates high-quality de novo reference genomes for pests lacking data: the bean pod borer (Etiella zinckenella) 700Mb heterozygous genome assembled at chromosome level using optimized @nanoporetech.com long reads @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social

Impressive first @nanoporetech.com cDNA sequencing run at @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social ! Over 90M full-length transcripts generated in just 54 hours from A. thaliana leaf samples. Thanks to Matilda from the QIP team for the sample preparation! #Nanopore #LongReadSequencing #Transcriptomics

Testing a new DNA extraction protocol on a bee sample @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social. @nanoporetech.com assembly is impressive. Looks like most of the 16 chromosomes are single T2T contigs! Thanks @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social and your team for providing the larvae sample!