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Dorado

Oxford Nanopore's production basecaller: transformer/LSTM models turning raw nanopore signal into reads, with modified-base calling and duplex.

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CategorySequencing & variant calling
GitHubnanoporetech/dorado
First public2022-10-05 (source)
LicenseOxford Nanopore Public License 1.0
PricingOpen source
Tags#basecalling#nanopore#long-read
Last checked2026-10-16

Specs

Sequencing platformOxford Nanopore
TaskBasecalling incl. modified bases
Variant types—
GitHub stars881
Interface—

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