Toward on-site food authentication using nanopore sequencing

Marleen M Voorhuijzen-Harink; Rico Hagelaar; Jeroen P van Dijk; Theo W Prins; Esther J Kok; Martijn Staats

doi:10.1016/j.fochx.2019.100035

Toward on-site food authentication using nanopore sequencing

Food Chem X. 2019 Jun 5:2:100035. doi: 10.1016/j.fochx.2019.100035. eCollection 2019 Jun 30.

Authors

Marleen M Voorhuijzen-Harink¹, Rico Hagelaar², Jeroen P van Dijk¹, Theo W Prins¹, Esther J Kok¹, Martijn Staats¹

Affiliations

¹ Wageningen University & Research - Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), Netherlands.
² Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Netherlands.

Abstract

•MinION DNA metabarcoding is a promising tool for species identification in food.•MinION and Illumina MiSeq sequencing platforms perform equally accurate.•Species identification with MinION sequencing requires dedicated bioinformatics.