Why fastq?
So far, you have been introduced to the ShortRead
package with useful tools for the initial stages of short-read sequence analysis. As a summary, the main functionalities of this package are:
- Data input
- Quality assessment
- Data transformation
- Access to downstream analysis
In this context, you have been exposed to two different file types: fasta and fastq.
What do you think is the reason to use fastq formatted files?
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