Welcome to Fast5’s documentation!¶
This package comprises an API to HDF containers used by the research groups within Oxford Nanopore Technologies. It complements the official API. Reading and writing of read files can be accomplished as well as reading of bulk .fast5 files.
Research Release
Research releases are provided as technology demonstrators to provide early access to features or stimulate Community development of tools. Support for this software will be minimal and is only provided directly by the developers. Feature requests, improvements, and discussions are welcome and can be implemented by forking and pull requests. However much as we would like to rectify every issue and piece of feedback users may have, the developers may have limited resource for support of this software. Research releases may be unstable and subject to rapid iteration by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
Installation¶
The package can been installed via pip with:
pip install fast5_research
See examples for details of basic use.