“…Although tRNA detection by nanopore has previously been explored and reported (Henley et al, 2016;Smith, Abu-Shumays, Akeson, & Bernick, 2015), the ONT nanopore sequencer commercialized direct RNA sequencing kits in 2017. Conventional "RNA-seq" with short reads, which is rather inappropriately termed so since the RNA molecules are not directly sequenced (Hrdlickova, Toloue, & Tian, 2017), requires reverse transcription (RT) of the template RNA molecule into complementary DNA (cDNA), which is typically further amplified by PCR. Direct RNA sequencing (again, it is unfortunate that true RNA sequencing has to add the word "direct" to differentiate itself from conventional "RNA-Seq"), on the other hand, directly detects the ribonucleobases passing through the pore without RT or PCR amplification, and this approach is free of possible biases or misamplifications introduced during such steps.…”