The recent article on Nature explain it better ... R becoming the most popular language amongst biological researchers http://www.nature.com/news/programming-tools-adventures-with-r-1.16609?
Some useful links on Nanopore:
Decoding long nanopore sequencing reads of natural DNA:http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n8/full/nbt.2950.html
Related links:- Data from pocket-sized genome sequencer unveiled...