alt Hacker NewsI love that this is something that is feasible for someone to just do right now as a hobbyist or blogger. The prices involved here are very reasonable and well within reach of someone wanting to do some project, though not yet at "sequence your microbiome every day" levels.
I hope we see a lot more posts like this in the future.
Yea; Plasmidsaurus slaps. Especially if you live near one of the drop boxes. (e.g. a research university) $15/sample, and they email the results the next morning. This sort of service is enabled in part by nanopore sequencing.
I have just used them to dork around with my home lab to validate cloning results. Now I want to try something like this!