[Biojava-dev] Extension of the org.biojava3.sequencing.io.fastq classes

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> Would it be useful to add some fastq files generated by CASAVA 1.8
> into the bio* test suite?  There are some linked in this post
>
> http://seqanswers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=41542&postcount=55
>
> I imagine we might find a better source though.
>
> For biojava, it sounds like all we need is documentation in the
> Illumina and Sanger variants?
>
>   michael

Could be a good idea - but if you are planning to parse the new
Illumina FASTQ header structure (all those colon separated
fields) then I would say it would be essential.

Peter