Laboratory and IT Requirements

IT Requirements

This section aims to help you to become familiar with IT requirements and specifications that you will need to meet in order to start sequencing. You should find here all the information you need on laptop/computer specification through to trouble-shooting network connectivity and a recommended lab-spec.

Laboratory equipment, consumables & requirements

Depending on whether you intend to use our rapid kit or one of our many ligation sequencing kits, there are different sets of equipment, consumables, and third party consumables that you will need in order to perform your sequencing experiment. The following links provide a PDF document which outline everything you will need.

MinION and consumables in a lab

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