The Flux Simulator uses FASTA/FASTQ sequences at different points; for the (optional) input of a genomic sequence to (optinally) produce read sequences.Genomic references are expected to provide one single FASTA file per reference sequence (i.e., chromosome, scaffold, etc.), as described in the Sequencing Section. |
The read sequence output is a multi-FASTA file, where each fasta block contains a description line that starts with a ">" ("greater than") symbol and the following one or multiple lines containing the read sequence. If a quality/error-model is provided, the very related FASTQ file format is produced, where the ">" identifier is replaced by the "@" symbol, and a quality block is following the fasta block, which uses a "+" separator and subsequently provides the qualities of the read sequences. The description line contains the read identifier as described in the |
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