More Nanopore Nonsense...

Since my last article I’ve received further confirmation that Clive Brown has left Oxford Nanopore, some saying he’s cleared out his desk already and others saying his final day will be in January. Which I guess could indicate some kind of gardening leave.

But the Nanopore news doesn’t end there…

It turns out Oxford Nanopore tried to block the Estonian acquisition of PacBio sequencers after they recently selected PacBio for their population sequencing project last March.

The details of the dispute are available here, posted by a kind user on the Discord.

From what I can understand based on the auto-translation, it seems…