Tutorial:Using wgsim to generate mate pair and single reads

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[Luke Crichton]

This is for anyone interested in getting started with designing bioinformatics pipelines for analysis but doesn't know where to get raw data from. This command line utility wgsim allows one you generate raw reads as if they came out of an NGS platform.

http://binf.snipcademy.com/tutorials/simulating-ngs-data/fastq/wgsim