NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data

Summary: Here we describe NanoPack, a set of tools developed for visualization and processing of long read sequencing data from Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Pacific Biosciences. Availability and Implementation: The NanoPack tools are written in Python3 and released under the GNU GPL3.0 Licence. The source code can be found at https://github.com/wdecoster/nanopack, together with links to separate scripts and their documentation. The scripts are compatible with Linux, Mac OS and the MS Windows 10 subsystem for linux and are available as a graphical user interface, a web service at http://nanoplot.bioinf.be and command line tools. Contact: wouter.decoster@molgen.vib-ua.be Supplementary information: Supplementary tables and figures are available at Bioinformatics online.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  bioRxiv

• Publication date

  2018-01-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty149PMID 29547981PMCID 6061794
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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