Sequencing technology
EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive
N(t) = L·e^{−e^{−k(t − t₀)}}Forecast = 10% of the 12-yr record (1.2 yr ahead). Anchored on the latest value; levels off toward L ≈ 2.0M.
Cumulative public ENA runs on Oxford Nanopore long-read platforms — from just 13 submitted runs by end-2014 (the year the MinION access programme began) to over a million today. The steepest adoption curve of any platform here; counted live from the ENA Portal API by instrument_platform=OXFORD_NANOPORE.
| Date | runs |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-20 | 1,076,471 |
| 2026-07-13 | 1,073,438 |
| 2026-07-06 | 1,071,454 |
| 2026-06-25 | 1,068,585 |
| 2024-12-31 | 865,708 |
| 2022-12-31 | 547,288 |
| 2020-12-31 | 47,810 |
| 2018-12-31 | 3,111 |
| 2016-12-31 | 667 |
| 2014-12-31 | 13 |
Machine-readable: /api/research-data?metric=ena-platform-nanopore · back to all metrics