MinION is the only portable real-time device for DNA and RNA sequencing. Each consumable flow cell can now generate 10–20 Gb of DNA sequence data. Ultra-long read lengths are possible (hundreds of kb) as you can choose your fragment length. One of the technical advantages of ONT data is the read length, which offers great prospects for genome assembly. Generally, assemblers are based on several different types of algorithms, such as greedy, overlap-layout-consensus (OLC), de Bruijn graph (DBG), and string graph.
List of analysis tools developed for Oxford Nanopore data
BWA
Fast nanopore data tuned alignment tool
https://github.com/lh3/bwa
GraphMap
Mapper for long and error-prone reads
https://github.com/isovic/graphmap
LAST
Nanopore tuned alignment tool
http://last.cbrc.jp/
LINKS
Software tool for long read scaffolding
https://github.com/warrenlr/LINKS/
marginAlign
Tools to align nanopore reads to a reference
https://github.com/benedictpaten/marginAlign
minoTour
Real time analysis tools
http://minotour.nottingham.ac.uk/
nanoCORR
Error-correction tool for nanopore sequence data
https://github.com/jgurtowski/nanocorr
NanoOK
Software for nanopore data, quality and error profiles
https://documentation.tgac.ac.uk/display/NANOOK/NanoOK
Nanopolish
Nanopore analysis and genome assembly software
https://github.com/jts/nanopolish
nanopore
Variant-detection tool for nanopore sequence data
https://github.com/mitenjain/nanopore
Nanocorrect
Error-correction tool for nanopore sequence data
https://github.com/jts/nanocorrect/
npReader
Real-time conversion and analysis of nanopore reads
https://github.com/mdcao/npReader
poRe
Tool for analyzing and visualizing nanopore data
https://sourceforge.net/p/rpore/wiki/Home/
PoreSeq
Error-correction and variant-calling software
https://github.com/tszalay/poreseq
Poretools
Nanopore sequence analysis and visualization software
https://github.com/arq5x/poretools
SSPACE-LongRead
Genome scaffolding tool
http://www.baseclear.com/genomics/bioinformatics/basetools/SSPACE-longread
SMIS
Genome scaffolding tool
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phusion2/files/smis/
List of assemblers for Oxford Nanopore MinION long reads
LQS
DALIGNER, Celera OLC Nanocorrect,
Nanopolish corrector
https://github.com/jts/nanopolish
PBcR
HGAP or BLASR, Celera OLC
PBcR corrector
http://wgs-assembler.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/PBcR
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Canu
MHAP, Celera OLC
Canu corrector
https://github.com/marbl/canu
Falcon
String graph, Celera OLC
Falcon corrector
https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/falcon
Miniasm
OLC
https://github.com/lh3/miniasm
ra-integrate
OLC
https://github.com/mariokostelac/ra-integrate/
ALLPATHS-LG
de Bruijn graph
ALLPATHS-L corrector
https://www.broadinstitute.org/software/allpaths-lg/blog/?page_id=12
SPAdes
de Bruijn graph
SPAdes corrector
http://bioinf.spbau.ru/spades
Comments
Basic commands for genome assembly
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rrwick/Long-read-assembler-comparison/master/supplementary_figures/Fig_S04_commands.png