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What is basecalling? | Oxford Nanopore Technologies

What is basecalling?

The process of basecalling involves reading the signal data and converting this into fastq files containing the nucleotide sequences and associated quality scores from the sequenced molecule. It is also possible to store basecalled reads in BAM format directly from MinKNOW.

You can find out more about basecalling in out Data Analysis Guide here.

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