[5] The company was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford by Hagan Bayley,[6] Gordon Sanghera, and Spike Willcocks, with seed funding from the IP Group.

[7] The company made an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange on 30 September 2021, under the ticker ONT.

[10] In July 2016, a MinION nanopore sequencer was included on the ninth NASA/SpaceX commercial cargo resupply services mission to the International Space Station.

[12] During the mission, ISS crew members successfully sequenced DNA from bacteria, bacteriophage and rodents from samples prepared on Earth.

[13] Maintaining the MinION device as a research facility on the space station holds the potential to support a number of additional science investigations, any of which could have Earth based applications.