Dorado — Oxford Nanopore's official high-performance open-source basecaller that converts raw nanopore signal (POD5/FAST5) into nucleotide sequences. Replaces Guppy as the primary ONT basecaller. Supp
Use with AI
Install the MCP server or CLI to instantly fetch Dorado documentation:
Install command
claude mcp add biocontext7 -- npx @biocontext7/mcpOr share this page: biocontext7.com/tools/dorado
blue-crab converts Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) sequencing data between POD5 and SLOW5/BLOW5 file formats. Use for long-read genomics workflows that require SLOW5/BLOW5 input (e.g., Buttery-eel ba
1 shared topic • 3 shared operations
buttery-eel — streaming Guppy/Dorado basecaller wrapper for Oxford Nanopore SLOW5/BLOW5 format long-read sequencing data. Streams reads from SLOW5 or BLOW5 files directly through a running Guppy serve
1 shared topic • 3 shared operations
HTSlib — C library and command-line utilities for reading, writing, indexing, and manipulating high-throughput sequencing data in SAM, BAM, CRAM, VCF, BCF, and tabix-indexed formats. Provides bgzip bl
1 shared topic • 3 shared operations
slow5lib and blue-crab — C library and Python tools for reading, writing, and converting Oxford Nanopore raw signal data in SLOW5/BLOW5 format. blue-crab converts between FAST5, POD5, and SLOW5/BLOW5
1 shared topic • 3 shared operations
slow5tools -- command-line toolkit for converting, compressing, merging, splitting, indexing, and extracting reads from SLOW5/BLOW5 format files. SLOW5/BLOW5 is an alternative to HDF5-based FAST5/POD5
1 shared topic • 3 shared operations