Next Generation Sequencing

Question

[parishasingh49]

I would like to know how to convert idat file to FASTAQ file or any other file format through which I can proceed further.

[Ram]

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Answer 1

[h.mon]

It would help a lot if you provide more information, like how the files were obtained, what analyses you would like to perform, etc.

But since idat files are Illumina microarray files, you won't get fastq files unless you do some pretty insane magic. Have a look at the BioConductor package illuminaio for parsing idat files.

[John]

I'm still not convinced bioinformatics isn't insane magic... :P

[Ram]

Well, you know what Arthur C Clarke said!