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Minimal but speedy quality control and summaries of nanopore reads. Version 0.10.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-14.
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Minimal but speedy quality control and summaries of nanopore reads
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- nanoq
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Project history and usage
Nanoq is a Rust command-line utility for rapid filtering, trimming, quality control, and summary reporting of Oxford Nanopore FASTA/FASTQ reads. It is designed to work with files or Unix streams and emphasizes low memory use and high throughput.
Project history
The public repository and first tagged releases appeared in March 2020. The project subsequently expanded its filters, reports, compression support, and machine-readable output, reaching the 0.8 series in 2021, 0.9.0 in 2022, and 0.10.0 in 2023. Steinig and Coin described Nanoq in the Journal of Open Source Software in 2022.
Adoption history
Nanoq is distributed through Cargo, Conda/Bioconda, precompiled Linux and macOS release archives, and a Homebrew formula. Its official benchmarks position it alongside established sequencing utilities including NanoFilt, NanoStat, Filtlong, seqtk, SeqKit, and rust-bio-tools.
How it is used
Users pass FASTA or FASTQ reads by file or standard input, apply length or quality filters and optional end trimming, and send surviving reads to a file or standard output. Statistics can be emitted as compact text, verbose summaries, or JSON; a fast mode skips quality-score calculation for greater throughput.
Why package nerds care
Nanoq is notable as a small, single-purpose Rust CLI that composes naturally in Unix pipelines while being packaged across the Rust, bioinformatics, binary-release, and Homebrew ecosystems. Its benchmarked trade-off between full quality calculations and an exceptionally fast quality-free mode makes it useful when choosing lightweight tools for large sequencing streams.
Timeline
- 2020: First public tagged releases.
- 2021: The 0.8 release series broadened the mature CLI.
- 2022: Nanoq was published in the Journal of Open Source Software and version 0.9.0 was released.
- 2023: Version 0.10.0 was released.
Related projects
- NanoFilt and NanoStat provide nanopore filtering and statistics workflows used as official benchmark comparisons.
- Filtlong, seqtk, SeqKit, and rust-bio-tools are neighboring read-processing tools compared in Nanoq's official benchmarks.
- Needletail and niffler provide Nanoq's read-processing and compression foundations.
Sources
- https://github.com/esteinig/nanoq
- https://github.com/esteinig/nanoq/releases
- https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.02991
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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for nanoq. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
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- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
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nanoq | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
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page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.10.0
manager updated2026-07-14
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
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install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:nanoq |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.10.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/esteinig/nanoq |
| Repository | https://github.com/esteinig/nanoq |
| Last updated | 2026-07-14T06:59:42Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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