Fig. 2From: Flexible and efficient handling of nanopore sequencing signal data with slow5toolsEfficient data conversion with slow5tools f2s and s2f commands. a, b Normalized execution times for conversion of a typical ONT dataset (~9M reads) from FAST5-to-SLOW5 format (a) or SLOW5-to-FAST5 format (b) when using increasing numbers of parallel processes. Data conversion was evaluated on three separate machines with different disk systems (SSD, HDD, Distributed). For each system, execution times are normalized relative to the execution time for the smallest number of processes (four) run on that system. Ideal curves (dashed lines) model the expected performance under optimal parallelism. c The rate of FAST5 data production (red) and FAST5-to-SLOW5 data conversion (orange) with realf2s.sh on a PromethION P48 device running at maximum sequencing loadBack to article page