BACKGROUND: The use of nanopore technologies is expected to spread in the future 
because they are portable and can sequence long fragments of DNA molecules 
without prior amplification. The first nanopore sequencer available, the MinION™ 
from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, is a USB-connected, portable device that 
allows real-time DNA analysis. In addition, other new instruments are expected 
to be released soon, which promise to outperform the current short-read 
technologies in terms of throughput. Despite the flood of data expected from 
this technology, the data analysis solutions currently available are only 
designed to manage small projects and are not scalable.
RESULTS: Here we present HPG Pore, a toolkit for exploring and analysing 
nanopore sequencing data. HPG Pore can run on both individual computers and in 
the Hadoop distributed computing framework, which allows easy scale-up to manage 
the large amounts of data expected to result from extensive use of nanopore 
technologies in the future.
CONCLUSIONS: HPG Pore allows for virtually unlimited sequencing data 
scalability, thus guaranteeing its continued management in near future 
scenarios. HPG Pore is available in GitHub at http://github.com/opencb/hpg-pore.