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. 2007 May 25;93(7):2384–2390. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.106.102269

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Schematic of a nanopore (dark gray) with embedded electrodes (light gray) attached to the edges of the pore. The electrodes are used to inject a current through the nucleotides in the direction transverse to the backbone. The electronic signature can then be used to sequence the DNA.