Enveomics collection

A toolbox for microbial genomics and metagenomics

FastQ.split.pl

Splits a FastQ file into several FastQ files. This script can be used to separate interposed sister reads using any even number of output files.

    See source code, Artistic license 2.0.

§ References

    Rodriguez-R & Konstantinidis, 2016, PeerJ Preprints.

§ Requirements

§ Usage

FastQ.split.pl in_file out_file [opts]

§ Arguments

in_file.fq*
 in_file  Input file in FastQ format.
out_base*
 out_file  Prefix for the name of the output files. It will be appended with ..fastq, where is a consecutive number starting in 1.
no_files
 integer  Number of files to generate.
* Mandatory.