Conclusion and Future directions
We present NGSpeciesID, an easy-to-use and flexible one-software solution to generate high-quality consensus sequences for both ONT and PacBio sequencing data. It performs equally well as other pipelines and software solutions tested here, but offers advanced usability as it is simple to use and does not require pre-processing of the data before running. Portable devices such as the inexpensive MinION sequencer have started to democratize the process of molecular biodiversity monitoring (see eg. Krehenwinkel et al., (2019b). Here we add to this, by the development of a simple to install and run bioinformatic software, that should further enable students and citizen-scientists without a formalized bioinformatic training to carry out biodiversity monitoring and assessment studies.