diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/poretools/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/poretools/default.nix
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..3bb9ea06fd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/poretools/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, pythonPackages, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "poretools";
+  version = "unstable-2016-07-10";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    repo = pname;
+    owner = "arq5x";
+    rev = "e426b1f09e86ac259a00c261c79df91510777407";
+    sha256 = "0bglj833wxpp3cq430p1d3xp085ls221js2y90w7ir2x5ay8l7am";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [pythonPackages.h5py pythonPackages.matplotlib pythonPackages.seaborn pythonPackages.pandas];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "a toolkit for working with nanopore sequencing data from Oxford Nanopore";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
+    homepage = http://poretools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.rybern];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index db2c99497f1..e394087ab56 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3829,6 +3829,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   popfile = callPackage ../tools/text/popfile { };
 
+  poretools = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/poretools { };
+
   postscript-lexmark = callPackage ../misc/drivers/postscript-lexmark { };
 
   povray = callPackage ../tools/graphics/povray { };