Methods of processing Oxford Nanopore sequencing data for metagenomics

The revolutionary sequencing technology introduced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies – MinION holds a great promise in the field of metagenomics. Low cost, produced long reads and portability, due to its small dimensions, represents only one of the many advantages of this technology. Despite the benefits, there is a lack of available computational tools for handling the produced data. The theoretical part of the thesis first introduces current sequencing technologies with main focus on the third-generation sequencing and especially on nanopore sequencing. The recent possibilities of metagenomic data visualization are introduced. The main purpose of the bachelor thesis is to make an algorithm for binning of metagenomic samples based on use of dimensionality reduction techniques straight on raw data produced by nanopore sequencing