FASTQuick: rapid and comprehensive quality assessment of raw sequence reads.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid and thorough quality assessment of sequenced genomes on an ultra-high-throughput scale is crucial for successful large-scale genomic studies. Comprehensive quality assessment typically requires full genome alignment, which costs a substantial amount of computational resources and turnaround time. Existing tools are either computationally expensive owing to full alignment or lacking essential quality metrics by skipping read alignment.

Findings

We developed a set of rapid and accurate methods to produce comprehensive quality metrics directly from a subset of raw sequence reads (from whole-genome or whole-exome sequencing) without full alignment. Our methods offer orders of magnitude faster turnaround time than existing full alignment-based methods while provi

SUBMITTER: Zhang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7844880 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature