SRA Fastq files encoding

Question: SRA Fastq files encoding

4.7 years ago by

mieszko91 • 30

mieszko91 • 30 wrote:

Hi! What encoding is used for fastq files from ncbi sequence read archive? ANSII, UTF8?

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modified 4.7 years ago by igor ♦ 12k • written 4.7 years ago by mieszko91 • 30

Are you referring to the format of the SRA files themselves or the actual fastq files that are converted to SRA (and back)? File formats for SRA are described here.

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Devon Ryan ♦ 98k

Freiburg, Germany

Devon Ryan ♦ 98k wrote:

Fastq files themselves are always ascii encoded. However, you get sra files from SRA (you can convert these to fastq, of course).

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4.7 years ago by

igor ♦ 12k

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igor ♦ 12k wrote:

SRA provides SRA files. You can find some additional info on the SRA format here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158900/

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