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Flexible, large-scale, direct DNA and RNA sequencing.

Terabases of data

1 - 24 flow cells

Flexible, on-demand sequencing.

High-performance compute

Analyse data in real time with 4 NVIDIA A-Series GPUs.

Scalable and high-throughput

Sequence up to terabases of data with every run.


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Why PromethION?


Which PromethION device is right for me?

Not sure which PromethION device you need? Compare the number of flow cells you can run on a PromethION 2 device or a PromethION 24 device, each year. Read more about our P24 device and our P2 device.

Flow cells run for 72 hours, two full device runs per week.

Diagram showing PromethION P2 vs P24 Flow cell cpacity

Flow cell specification

100-200 Gb native gDNA reads (read N50 ~25 kb)

Multiplexed sequencing of up to 96 samples with PCR or PCR-free barcoding

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>100 million cDNA reads for isoform-level analysis

50-100 Gb ultra-long native DNA reads (>50 kb read N50)

>200 Gb on metagenomic samples (read N50 ~ 10 kb)

Plus: direct methylation detection, chromatin confirmation capture with Pore-C, direct RNA sequencing, read lengths from short (20 bases) to ultra long (>4 million bases)

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