Advanced Techniques in Biology & Medicine
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Next Generation Sequencing Applications Scholarly Peer-review Journal

Next-generation sequencing methods based on nanopore technology have recently gained considerable attention, mainly because they promise affordable and fast genome sequencing by providing long read lengths (5 kbp) and do not require additional DNA amplification or enzymatic incorporation of modified nucleotides. This permits health care providers and research facilities to decode a genome within hours for less than $1000. This review summarizes past, present, and future DNA sequencing techniques, which are realized by nanopore approaches such as those pursued by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. additional tools to aid QC (sequence format converter and trimming tools) and analysis (statistics tools). A variety of options have been provided to facilitate the QC at user-defined parameters. The toolkit is expected to be very useful for the QC of NGS data to facilitate better downstream analysis.