DeepNano-blitz: A Fast Base Caller for MinION Nanopore Sequencers
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Base calling nanopore sequence data is a computationally intensive process and as such requires expensive hardware (e.g. GPUs or computational clusters), otherwise it takes too much time to be practical. This problem is exacerbated during data acquisition when access to such hardware is often limited (e.g., MinION sequencing in the field). Our goal is to develop a very fast base caller capable of keeping up with the MinION device even on a consumer laptop device.