.TH PORETOOLS 1 "January 2016" .SH NAME poretools \- toolkit for working with nanopore sequencing data .SH SYNOPSIS .B poretools .RI [ options ] " files" ... .SH DESCRIPTION .B poretools is a flexible toolkit for exploring datasets generated by nanopore sequencing devices from MinION for the purposes of quality control and downstream analysis. Poretools operates directly on the native FAST5 (a variant of the HDF5 standard) file format produced by ONT and provides a wealth of format conversion utilities and data exploration and visualization tools. .SH OPTIONS For a complete description, see the help menu. .TP .B \-h, \-\-help Show summary of options. .SH SEE ALSO http://poretools.readthedocs.org