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FASTQ commands

See also
 
FASTQ files
  Quality scores
  Average Q is a bad idea!
  FASTQ format options
 
Wikipedia article on FASTQ
  Cock et ail (2010) paper describing FASTQ
  Choosing FASTQ filter parameters
 

Command   Description
fastq_chars   Report frequency and range of ASCII characters used to represent quality scores. Useful for guessing the FASTQ score parameters of a file.
 
fastq_filter   Quality filtering and / or conversion of FASTQ to FASTA format. See also choosing FASTQ filter parameters.
 
fastq_mergepairs   Merge paired reads into single reads. Sometimes also called overlapping or (perhaps misleadingly) assembly of paired reads.
 
fastq_stats   Report various statistics for FASTQ records. Useful for choosing FASTQ filter parameters.