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fastq read count

masikol edited this page Oct 18, 2022 · 5 revisions

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Description

Script counts amount of reads and bases in *.fastq(.gz) or *.fq(.gz) file(s).

Script writes it's output to file fastq-read-count_result.tsv if tab-separated format.

Dependencies

The script is written in Python, so you need Python interpreter (version 3.X) to use it. Here you can download Python.

Options

-h (--help): print help message;

-v (--version): print version;

Usage

python3 fastq-read-count.py first.fastq second.fastq.gz third.fq.gz

Following command will process all *.fastq(.gz) and *.fq(.gz) files in the working directory:

python3 fastq-read-count.py
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