I recently tried to place a claim that I had first conceived Oxford Nanopore's "6b4" strategy for solving homopolymers, but that appropriately brought a number of citations for the concept that predated my blog piece. Not one to give up easily (and as hinted in that piece), I'm going to spend part of this piece trying to stake claim on some new concepts for fixing Oxford Nanopore's homopolymer issues - and PacBio's trouble with polypurine stretches. To be honest, much of this piece will consist of me posing questions I haven't bothered to try to chase down if they've already been answered in the literature. But not only might someone do that, but it may well be that data already exists in the public sphere to explore proof-of-concept! But I haven't checked that either - though doing so was on my list of "what to do if management gave me the summer off" - but
they didn't.
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