W2K Questions 1. What is FASTQ format 2. Know what is Quality Scores 3. Signal decay and phasing 4. What is adapter

FASTQ format:

Line Description
1 Always begins with ‘@’ and then information about the read
2 The actual DNA sequence
3 Always begins with a ‘+’ and sometimes the same info in line 1
4 Has a string of characters which represent the quality scores; must have same number of characters as line 2

Steps:

  1. FASTQE visualize fastq files with emoji’s 🧬😎 (Galaxy Version 0.3.1+galaxy0)
    • This tool can convert
  2. FastQC
  3. Cutadapt

Short read session

Long read session

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