FASTQ tools

Application to show information about and scramble FASTQ files to provide non-sensitive data for development purposes

Usage

This application provides the following subcommands

Info

To show information about compressed FASTQ files use:

cat file_fastq.gz | gzip -d | fastq-tools info

This will result in output like

Scramble

To scramble compressed FASTQ files use:

cat file_fastq.gz | gzip -d | fastq-tools scramble | gzip > scrambled_fastq.gz

This will scramble headers and sequences and write the output into scrambled_fastq.gz.