Our paper “A lab in the field: applications of real-time, in situ metagenomic sequencing” is finally out!
https://academic.oup.com/biomethods/article/5/1/bpaa016/5894965
We’ve prepared a thread with the most amazing places where DNA sequencing has been performed using MinION ( @nanopore)

The Antarctic Dry Valleys. Sarah S. Johnson ( @biosigs) et al. (2017): https://bit.ly/3hVP1Vd 
Photo: Sarah S. Johnson

The Arctic and Greenland. Arwyn Edwards et al. (2019): https://bit.ly/31Ri4Ug  https://twitter.com/AmaEksi/status/1028254291541336064

This is a brilliant video of @arwynedwards explaining his experience on nanopore sequencing under extreme conditions.

The Canadian high Arctic. Jacqueline Goordial ( @JackieGoordial) et al. (2017): https://bit.ly/3gW37Vh 
Photo: J. Goordial ( https://bit.ly/3hOUZXJ )

Hveragil hot spring gorge (Iceland). Glen-Oliver F. Gowers ( @glen_gowers) et al. (2019): https://bit.ly/2Z1bNDo 
*Figure from the original article

Big Pit coal mine (UK). Again Arwyn Edwards ( @arwynedwards) et al. (2017): https://bit.ly/2DsK7A0 

Yes, you heard well. They performed the sequencing down in the mine! :O

Photo: Big Pit National Coal Museum

International Space Station. Sarah L. Castro-Wallace et al. (2017): https://go.nature.com/3gS9IA4 

Everything is explained in this wonderful video: https://bit.ly/3jzfLuQ 

Photo: NASA

In fact, Aaron S. Burton ( @ScientistAaronB) et al. (2020) have recently deomnstrated that “an end-to-end, sample-to-sequencer process […] could be conducted entirely aboard the International Space Station (ISS)”: https://bit.ly/32RX3rF 

Mars? Moon Europa?

Well, Christopher E. Carr ( @c_e_carr) et al. (2020) proved that nanopore sequencing also works under microgravity conditions: https://bit.ly/2EX8u9t 

Photo: NASA

Rainforest (Tanzania). M. Menegon et al. (2017): https://bit.ly/31UaVmc 

Figure from the original article

Chocó rainforest (Ecuador). Aaron Pomerantz ( @AaronPomerantz) et al. (2018): https://bit.ly/3gSc2Hi 

Figure from the original article

If you wanna find out more about these and more in-field applications of nanopore sequencing, check out the review!