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Oxford Nanopore runs in ENA

EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive

1.1M
runs · 2026-07-20
Gompertz
best-fit model
1.3M
projected 2027
1359928K1.3M20142016201820202022202420261.3M 2027
Gompertz (S-curve) fitbest fit (AICc)N(t) = L·e^{−e^{−k(t − t₀)}}
carrying capacity L 2.0Msteepness k 0.276 / yrinflection t₀ 2024 0.9849forecast 1.3M by 2027

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.

SourceEMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive
Update cadenceweekly
Live endpointhttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22OXFORD_NANOPORE%22&format=json
Parsejson · count
Dateruns
2026-07-201,076,471
2026-07-131,073,438
2026-07-061,071,454
2026-06-251,068,585
2024-12-31865,708
2022-12-31547,288
2020-12-3147,810
2018-12-313,111
2016-12-31667
2014-12-3113

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