This figure is an update of Figure 1 in “A practical comparison of de novo genome assembly software tools for next-generation sequencing technologies.” published by Zhang et al (2011). The figure was produced in SVG so you should be able to click on the name of the assembler which should take you straight to the […]
Read MoreExploring the FAST5 format
- July 19, 2017
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FAST5 format from Oxford Nanopore (ONT) is in fact HDF5, which is a very flexible data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. It is able to store an unlimited variety of datatypes. A number of tools have been developed for handling HDF5 available from here. The most useful are: hdfview, a […]
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