Enveomics collection

A toolbox for microbial genomics and metagenomics

FastQ.maskQual.rb

Masks low-quality bases in a FastQ file.

    See source code, Artistic license 2.0.

§ References

    Rodriguez-R & Konstantinidis, 2016, PeerJ Preprints.

§ Requirements

§ Usage

FastQ.maskQual.rb --input in_file --output out_file [opts]

§ Arguments

Input*
 --input in_file  Path to the FastQ file containing the sequences. Supports compression with .gz extension.
Output*
 --output out_file  Path to the output FastQ file. Supports compression with .gz extension.
Qual
 --qual integer  Minimum quality score to allow a base.
Offset
 --offset integer  Q-score offset.
Fasta
 --fasta   Output sequences in FastA format.
Quiet
 --quiet   Run quietly.
* Mandatory.