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. 2011 Mar 15;27(6):863-4.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr026. Epub 2011 Jan 28.

Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets

Robert Schmieder  1 , Robert Edwards
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Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets

Robert Schmieder et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Summary: Here, we present PRINSEQ for easy and rapid quality control and data preprocessing of genomic and metagenomic datasets. Summary statistics of FASTA (and QUAL) or FASTQ files are generated in tabular and graphical form and sequences can be filtered, reformatted and trimmed by a variety of options to improve downstream analysis.

Availability and implementation: This open-source application was implemented in Perl and can be used as a stand alone version or accessed online through a user-friendly web interface. The source code, user help and additional information are available at http://prinseq.sourceforge.net/.

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