[EMBOSS] Trim polyA from fastq files

[michael watson (IAH-C)]

Hello

I have some Illumina reads which have varying lengths of polyAs at the ends.  I want to trim these off.  The data is in fastq format.

Is this possible in EMBOSS?  I have 6.0.1 and I tried trimest but it couldn't read my fastq file

Thanks
Mick

Head of Bioinformatics
Institute for Animal Health
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