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+name: Dorado Issue Template
+about: Standard template for reporting dorado issues
+title: ''
+labels: ''
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+
+# Issue Report
+
+## Please describe the issue:
+
+*Please provide a clear and concise description of the issue you are seeing and the result you expect.*
+
+## Steps to reproduce the issue:
+
+*Please list any steps to reproduce the issue.*
+
+## Run environment:
+- Dorado version:
+- Dorado command:
+- Operating system:
+- Hardware (CPUs, Memory, GPUs):
+- Source data type (e.g., pod5 or fast5 - please note we always recommend converting to pod5 for optimal basecalling performance):
+- Source data location (on device or networked drive - NFS, etc.): 
+- Details about data (flow cell, kit, read lengths, number of reads, total dataset size in MB/GB/TB): 
+- Dataset to reproduce, if applicable (small subset of data to share as a pod5 to reproduce the issue):
+
+## Logs
+
+* Please provide output trace of dorado (run dorado with -v, or -vv on a small subset)