Oxford Nanopore Technologies is developing a platform technology for the analysis of single molecules.
In recent years, a focus of our R&D effort has been the development of a proprietary, arrayed, planar bilayer chip and reader system. This chip contains multiple microwells, each an individually addressable electronic channel. This central aspect of our technology platform allows us to record a large number of nanopore measurements in parallel, therefore allowing for high-throughput, low cost molecular analysis.
The versatile chip is combined with a modular nanopore biosensor and a universal low cost instrument. For our lead application, DNA sequencing, a protein nanopore is combined with a processive enzyme. For protein detection a nanopore may be combined with a ligand for specific protein analysis. For more information please see
Applications.
