[Open-bio-l] Sanger FASTQ format and the Solexa/Illumina variants

[Peter Cock]

Hi all,

I’m delighted to announce an open access publication in Nucleic Acids
Research describing the FASTQ file format based on the conventions
agreed by the OBF projects (largely on this mailing list):

  The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores,
  and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants.
  Peter J. A. Cock (Biopython), Christopher J. Fields (BioPerl),
  Naohisa Goto (BioRuby), Michael L. Heuer (BioJava)
  and Peter M. Rice (EMBOSS).
  Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkp1137

This open access publication will hopefully serve as a reference
describing the original standard Sanger FASTQ, and the two variants
from Solexa/Illumina, and how to inter-convert between them.

Peter

P.S. This was also posted on the OBF news server:
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2009/12/nar-fastq-format/