Teaching next-generation sequencing to medical students with a portable sequencing device

There continues to be a disjoint between the emergence of new diagnostic technologies and venues to train new physicians on how to apply them. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become a very important tool for a wide range of clinical applications. Technical complexity and cost have been the major obstacles in incorporating these technologies into the classroom.We opted to use the MinION, which is a new portable DNA sequencer that can produce...