PORETOOLS(1)

💖 PORETOOLS(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, sit down, because we're about to talk about the manual page for poretools, and honestly? she's iconic. this is the General Commands Manual entry, and by the end of this you're gonna be obsessed. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

poretools — a toolkit for working with nanopore sequencing data 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

poretools [options] files...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, poretools is a flexible toolkit for exploring datasets generated by nanopore sequencing devices from MinION, and it's here for the purposes of quality control and downstream analysis. it literally ate.

and the way it works? poretools operates directly on the native FAST5 file format (which is a variant of the HDF5 standard, iykyk) produced by ONT. no conversion drama first, it just goes in. and on top of that it provides a whole wealth of format conversion utilities plus data exploration and visualization tools. it's giving main character energy fr fr. 😭💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay for a complete description, see the help menu. that's the vibe. but here's the one you need:

• -h, --help — shows you a summary of the options. that's it, that's the queen. 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• http://poretools.readthedocs.org — go read the docs bestie, they're right there ✨

not me ending this page like the icon she is 🎀

and that's a wrap, babe! this manual page is from January 2016, it belongs to the PORETOOLS(1) manual, and it's filed under General Commands Manual. periodt. 💅🌸🦋✨