poRe: an R package for the visualization and analysis of nanopore sequencing data

Abstract

MotivationThe 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.\n\nResultsHere we present poRe, a package for the statistical software R that enables users to manipulate, organize, summarise and visualize MinION nanopore sequencing data. As a packge for R, poRe has been tested on both Windows and Linux. Crucially, the Windows version allows users to analyse MinION data on the Windows laptop attached to the device\n\nAvailabilityPre-built R packages for Windows and Linux are available under a BSD license at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpore/\n\nContactmick.watson@roslin.ed.ac.uk