Yea, you can use it for COVID19 diagnostic tests. I did that back in April-ish for a project before they redirected the Nanopore reagents to commercial COVID testing.
Yes, it could be used to build a database, so long as you have a good amount of DNA from the person. Honestly, governments are already doing this with Illumina runs, so no diff there really.
It immediately generates runs, and tapers off at about 12-24 hours, and using a full flow cell takes like 48. How long you run it for depends on depth of reads.
Flongle flow cells cost $99 and approximately $200 at end of day and minion flow cells cost about $1000, with minion being about 10x as good as flongle. The primary cost is definitely consumables, the capex for these devices is very low.
Yes, it could be used to build a database, so long as you have a good amount of DNA from the person. Honestly, governments are already doing this with Illumina runs, so no diff there really.
It immediately generates runs, and tapers off at about 12-24 hours, and using a full flow cell takes like 48. How long you run it for depends on depth of reads.
Flongle flow cells cost $99 and approximately $200 at end of day and minion flow cells cost about $1000, with minion being about 10x as good as flongle. The primary cost is definitely consumables, the capex for these devices is very low.