Francis Van parys

Chief Executive Officer, Oxford Nanopore

Search every verified Francis Van parys interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Francis Van Parys, Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Nanopore, provided a mid-year update at the NCM Singapore conference on September 28, 2023. He discussed the company's progress on its Q20+ chemistry, also known as R10 and Kit 14, which he described as delivering "biology in unprecedented definition and scale." Van Parys noted that duplex sequencing, which pairs template and complement strands for higher accuracy, produces Q30+ accuracy, and that internal tests on native human samples yielded over 50 gigabases of duplex data from a single PromethION flow cell, with an additional 40 gigabases of simplex data. Van Parys also addressed efforts to simplify the user experience, including the development of end-to-end protocols with minimum output guides for applications such as human workflows, reduced representation methylation sequencing, and plasmid sequencing. He mentioned that the company is working with AWS to estimate storage costs, citing approximately $12 per month for raw data in S3 or $1 per month for glacial storage. Van Parys outlined a staged product release process for life science research tools, moving from developer and early access phases to released products, and stated that the company's vision is "enabling the analysis of anything by anyone anywhere."