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Dorado
High-performance, easy-to-use commandline basecaller for Nanopore data. Developer release for evaluation of new features. For information about the Dorado project, see https://github.com/nanoporetech/dorado.
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Dorado documentation
For more detailed advice, documentation and installation guides for DoradoVersion: 1.1.0
Release date: 7/31/2025
Approved use: For research use only
- Basecalling speed improvements: Faster HAC basecalling models on a range of NVIDIA GPUs and faster Transformer-based SUP basecalling models running on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs
- Output and tag updates for consistency with Oxford Nanopore Output Specifications
- Support for primer detection and trimming for 10x Genomics libraries using --primer-sequences with Dorado basecaller and trim
- Other feature improvements and simplifications
- Bug fixes
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