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Oxford Long Lang Models Give Q40?

Oxford Long Lang Models Give Q40?

Apr 30, 2025
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Gordon says Long Language Models (?) let Oxford Nanopore deliver a Q40 human genome!

This was from a recent “fireside chat” with Morgan Stanley which you can watch here.

I’m going to look at a few interesting statements from this chat focusing on: Accuracy, Protein Sequencing, Voltage Sensing, Plasmidsaurus (and top 5 customers), and… selling the company.

Accuracy

This is where Gordon said that they have a Q40 human genome enabled by “long language models”1.

The Oxford Nanopore website still doesn’t make a strong claim on accuracy, in fact the previous “Q30 raw read average”2 (which didn’t line up with overall average accuracy in my analysis) appears to have disappeared replaced with this:

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