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Download and installation
This part of the configuration will introduce the MinKNOW software and explain how to download and install it. There are three items to take particular note of:
- If anti-virus software stops the installation, contact your IT department
- The MinKNOW downloads as a .zip file and all files need to be extracted before proceeding with installation
- Data generated from the MinKNOW software needs to be stored on the SSD drive, and care should be taken to ensure the data location is set to the SSD during installation
If help is needed during installation, please refer to the Support area in the Community.
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Download MinKNOW
- Download MinKNOW software from the Downloads page on the Community
- For Windows, there are options for GPU and non-GPU metapackages. If you have a suitable NVIDIA GPU on your host system, you should use the GPU version of MinKNOW for significantly improved basecalling performance.
- Follow the on-screen instructions
- Contact the local IT administrators if there are any issues with permissions for installation
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Extract the .zip files.
- Check that the Oxford Nanopore wheel icon is next to MinKNOW Stand-alone NC Windows [version number].zip
- Click on MinKNOW Stand-alone NC Windows [version number].zip
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Follow the installation prompts.
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At the Installation Options screen, click 'Next' to accept default installation options.
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In the Choose Data Location dialogue box, check that you are happy with the location of the sequencing reads data to change to the required SSD location and click on Install.
In the Choose Data Location dialogue box, check that the read location is C:\data. If you prefer a different destination, enter the path in the box.
Continue the download by clicking on Install. -
Progression of installation
A dialogue box will open and shows progression of the installation.
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When installation is complete, click on 'Close' to see MinKNOW successfully installed.
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Optional actionIf you have a proxy server and would like to set up MinKNOW using a proxy, follow the instructions below.
Open the
user_conf
file:C:\ProgramFiles\OxfordNanopore\MinKNOW\conf\user_conf
And edit the following portion of the file:
"proxy": {
"cereal_class_version": 0,
"use_system_settings": true,
"auto_detect": true,
"auto_config_script": "",
"https_proxy": "",
"proxy_bypass": ""
Edit the
https_proxy
setting, which should be in the style of:scheme://[username:password@]host:port or "http://domain\\username:password@host:port", where "scheme" is one of https, socks, socks4 or socks5.