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A systematic benchmark of Nanopore long read RNA sequencing for transcript level analysis in human cell lines. MinION is a flow cell containing 512 channels, with four nanopores per channel. As nucleotides pass through the nanopore, a characteristic current change is measured and is used to determine the corresponding nucleotide type at ~450 bases per s (R9.4 nanopore). 10, 4660 (2019). ONT has continually refined the nanopore and the motor protein, releasing eight versions of the system to date, including R6 (June 2014), R7 (July 2014), R7.3 (October 2014), R9 (May 2016), R9.4 (October 2016), R9.5 (May 2017), R10 (March 2019) and R10.3 (January 2020) (Fig. Int. Taking the R7.3 nanopore as an example, the 1D read accuracy was improved from 65% by hidden Markov model (HMM)45 to 70% by Nanocall46 and to 78% by DeepNano47. Article The authors apologize to colleagues whose studies were not cited due to length and reference constraints. 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