The ont_fast5_api is a simple interface to HDF5 files of the Oxford Nanopore .fast5 file format. It provides: o Implementation of the fast5 file schema using h5py library o Methods to interact with and reflect the fast5 file schema o Tools to convert between multi_read and single_read formats o Tools to compress/decompress raw data in files WWW: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ont_fast5_api