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CPP equivalent for ont-pyguppy-client-lib #684

Closed maximilianmordig closed 5 months ago

maximilianmordig commented 6 months ago

I am looking for a cpp equivalent of ont-pyguppy-client-lib which seems to be mostly closed-source for live basecalling from cpp. Is it available? If not, what it the message format that the basecall server (guppy or dorado) expects? Also, I guess you use zeromq rather than protobuf.

MarkBicknellONT commented 5 months ago

Hi @maximilianmordig,

We don't currently provide a C++ client library for use with the basecall server. Can you let me know a little bit about what you are trying to do? We could look into making a C++ library available for external users in future, but there has not been any demand for it up until now.

The communication layer between the client and server is indeed using ZeroMQ. The low level communication protocol is not straightforward, so I wouldn't recommend trying to interface with the basecall server directly.

Kind regards, Mark