[BioRuby] FastQ and Quality Scores

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Raoul Bonnal <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:
> Dear All,
> probably I don't know very much this part of the bioruby library (not yet).
> In this days I'm playing a bit with fastq data :-) and bioruby
> ...
>
> Is Illumina the right format for the newest technology/datasets ?

Right now, yes, but with the imminent release of Illumina's
CASAVA 1.8 pipeline, they will start using the standard
Sanger FASTQ encoding.
http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8895

> ...
> I'm lost O_o

Hopefully this will help:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137

Peter