Please check the releases in this repository: https://github.com/asrivathsan/ONTbarcoder/releases. The ONTBarcoder_manual.pdf details more detailed guidelines for troubleshooting in case of issues.

Unzip ONTBarcoder_0.1.9_exe.win-amd64-2.7.zip and double click on the executable. In default mode the output files are stored in the same directory as the executable

Windows has a character limit of path length as 256 characters. Therefore, please avoid placing the software deep inside the directory structure. Avoid spaces in folder names

Use the DMGs for the version corresponding to your Mac. We recommend using the upgraded Mac (macOS 11) and corresponding dmg file ONTbarcoder_0.1.9_OS11.dmg. We have also compiled for older versions; ONTbarcoder_0.1.9_OSX10_13.dmg has been tested in macOS 10.13 and 10.12. We would suggesting using this in first pass for 10.14/15

In case DMG files give problems due to permission, you may use the standalone.tgz: macOS 11, macOS 10.13 files. These will contain numerous executables and the software should be run using ONTbarcoder_multiprocessing.

Uncompress the tgz archive ONTbarcoder_multiprocessing_0.1.9_linux.tgz. Start the software from the terminal as by

cd directory_containing_ONTbarcoderfiles
./ONTbarcoder_multiprocessing

The manual is available as ONTBarcoder_manual.pdf in this repository

Please use the Dataset_accessibility_and_descriptions file in the repository for access to various datasets. We recommend use of datasets A,B,C for initial testing before running the larger dataset.