Dorado vs Bonito
Dorado: Oxford Nanopore's production basecaller: transformer/LSTM models turning raw nanopore signal into reads, with modified-base calling and duplex. Bonito: Oxford Nanopore's research basecaller for training and testing new basecalling models.
Facts below come from each project's own website, repository and paper. We don't publish benchmark claims here; see the papers for evaluations. Shared tags: basecalling, nanopore.
| Field | Dorado | Bonito |
|---|---|---|
| Sequencing platform | Oxford Nanopore | Oxford Nanopore |
| Task | Basecalling incl. modified bases | Basecaller training / research |
| Variant types | — | — |
| License | Oxford Nanopore Public License 1.0 | Oxford Nanopore Public License 1.0 |
| Pricing | Open source | Open source |
| Released | 2022-10-05 | 2020-02-20 |
| Paper | — | — |
| GitHub | GitHub | GitHub |
| GitHub stars | 881 | 435 |
| Interface | — | Package |
License and commercial use
| Field | Dorado | Bonito |
|---|---|---|
| Code license | Oxford Nanopore Public License 1.0 | Oxford Nanopore Public License 1.0 |
| Weights license | — | — |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Unknown |
| Answer | Unclear. We could not confirm the terms from a primary source; check with the authors before commercial use. Details | Unclear. We could not confirm the terms from a primary source; check with the authors before commercial use. Details |
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