Enveomics collection

A toolbox for microbial genomics and metagenomics

FastQ.offset.pl

There are several FastQ formats. This script takes a FastQ in any of them, identifies the type of FastQ (this is, the offset), and generates a FastQ with the given offset.

    See source code, Artistic license 2.0.

§ References

    Rodriguez-R & Konstantinidis, 2016, PeerJ Preprints.

§ Requirements

§ Usage

FastQ.offset.pl in_file integer [opts] > out_file

§ Arguments

Input file*
 in_file  Input file in FastQ format (range is automatically detected).
Offset*
 integer  Offset to use for the output. Use 0 (zero) to detect the input format and exit.
Force
 force   If set, turns errors into warnings and continues. Out-of-range values are set to the closest range limit.
Output file*
 out_file  Output file in FastQ format with the specified offset.
* Mandatory.