FASTQ format
FASTQ format is a text-based format for storing both a biological sequence (usually nucleotide sequence) and its corresponding quality scores. Both the sequence letter and quality score are each encoded with a single ASCII character for brevity.
| Internet media type | text/plain, chemical/seq-na-fastq |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
| Initial release | ~2000 |
| Type of format | Bioinformatics |
| Extended from | ASCII and FASTA format |
| Website | maq |
It was originally developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to bundle a FASTA formatted sequence and its quality data, but has recently become the de facto standard for storing the output of high-throughput sequencing instruments such as the Illumina Genome Analyzer.
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