Sequencing articles within Nature Nanotechnology

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• News & Views | 25 September 2017

  Getting to the bottom of the well

  Large DNA molecules are rapidly loaded into nanoscale wells from dilute solution for single-molecule sequencing.

  • Hagan Bayley

• Article | 05 May 2013

  DNA sequencing using electrical conductance measurements of a DNA polymerase

  DNA molecules can be sequenced by monitoring the electrical conductance of a phi29 DNA polymerase as it incorporates unlabelled nucleotides into a template strand of DNA.

  • Yu-Shiun Chen
  • , Chia-Hui Lee
  •  & G. Steven Huang

• Letter | 06 February 2011

  Fast DNA sequencing with a graphene-based nanochannel device

  Calculations show that two-dimensional conductance spectra in a graphene nanoribbon placed across a fluidic nanochannel can be used to rapidly and reliably sequence DNA.

  • Seung Kyu Min
  • , Woo Youn Kim
  •  & Kwang S. Kim

• Editorial | 06 December 2010

  Quantum steps to better sequencing

  Nanopores and electron tunnelling offer a potentially revolutionary approach to DNA sequencing.

• News & Views | 14 November 2010

  Sequencing at the end of the tunnel

  Electron tunnelling can be used to identify single bases in a short DNA oligomer.

  • Massimiliano Di Ventra

• News & Views | 04 November 2010

  Detecting methylation with force

  An atomic force microscope with antibodies attached to its tip can be used to determine methylation patterns in individual DNA strands by making hundreds of force spectroscopy measurements.

  • Piotr E. Marszalek

• News & Views | 01 April 2010

  Read with quantum mechanics

  Electron tunnelling can be used to selectively identify the basic constituents of DNA, indicating that the approach could be used to efficiently read a DNA sequence.

  • Thomas Thundat