Utilities / Convert FASTQ to FASTA

Description

Given a FASTQ file, this tool will convert it to FASTA format. Reads can be also filtered for unknown nucleotides (Ns), and sequence identifiers can be renamed as numbers.

Parameters

Details

Converts read files to FASTA format, which is a suitable input format for many traditional sequence analysis tools such as BLAST and EMBOSS. Note that the base quality information available in FASTQ format is not available in FASTA.

Output

A FASTA file containing the reads.

Reference

This tool is based on the FASTQ-to-FASTA converter of the FASTX package.