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Announcements highlighted breakthrough technology performance and updates to Oxford Nanopore’s IVD pipeline at annual customer conference

Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc (LSE: ONT) ("Oxford Nanopore” or the “Company”), the company delivering a new generation of nanopore-based molecular sensing technology, presented breakthrough performance data and new platform updates at the Company’s annual London Calling customer conference, held between 21 and 24 May 2024. During the sold-out event, with more than 5,500 registered on-line and in-person participants, the Company also provided updates to its clinical product pipeline, unveiling a new roadmap for its first IVD product ahead of its first clinical and biopharma day on Friday.

Technology updates included:

• Delivering increasingly rich, high performance multiomic data: The update focused on improved performance on accuracy, delivering complete genomes with nanopore-only Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) sequencing, and full-length chromosomes in a single read, illustrated by successful T2T reads of four yeast chromosomes as proof of concept.
• Improving direct RNA sequencing to support breakthrough science and biopharma workflows: higher accuracy and output for direct RNA sequencing alongside the example of integrated, real-time quality control (QC) test for mRNA vaccines.
• Pipeline updates, enabling ultra-high output and accessible, distributed sequencing for anyone, anywhere: with the MinION Mk1D entering early access, continued progression with TraxION, enabling portable library prep in the field, the Voltage chip for ultra-rapid whole genome sequencing (WGS) and the new prototype of Oxford Nanopore’s smallest sequencer to date – the SmidgION – which was on display at the event.

A written summary and a video replay of the technology talk can be accessed on the Oxford Nanopore website here.

This morning, the Company will present a product review including an update on progress to its regulated product pipeline. In addition to locked-down Q line devices, the GridION is expected to meet ISO 13485 standards in 2025 and the Company will seek CE-IVD certification in the EU after that. The device will be available for specified partners only. The GridION Q-Line product range is on track to launch shortly in Q3-2024, as previously announced.

Alongside the technology updates the Company will also provide more details at its first clinical and biopharma day on Friday.

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