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poRe: an R package for the visualization and analysis of nanopore sequencing data
Mick Watson1, Marian Thomson1, Judith Risse1
1Edinburgh Genomics, The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Edinburgh EH25 9RG and Edinburgh Genomics, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
Motivation:
The Oxford Nanopore MinION device represents a unique sequencing technology. As a mobile sequencing device powered by the USB port of a laptop, the MinION has huge potential applications. To enable these applications, the bioinformatics community will need to design and build a suite of tools specifically for MinION data.
Results:
Here we present poRe, a package for R that enables users to manipulate, organize, summarize and visualize MinION nanopore sequencing data. As a package for R, poRe has been tested on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Crucially, the Windows version allows users to analyse MinION data on the Windows laptop attached to the device.
Availability And Implementation:
poRe is released as a package for R at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpore/. A tutorial and further information are available at https://sourceforge.net/p/rpore/wiki/Home/.
