FASTQ format
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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.
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Internet media type | text/plain |
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Developed by | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
Initial release | ~2000 |
Type of format | Bioinformatics |
Extended from | ASCII and FASTA format |
Website | maq |
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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.[1]