blue-crab
github.com/psy-fer/blue-crabblue-crab is a tool to convert from ONT POD5 format to the community maintained SLOW5/BLOW5 format. Lossless nanopore pod5 s/blow5 file conversion.
Sourced from
- bio.tools — blue-crab
- GitHub — github.com/psy-fer/blue-crab
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