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SolexaQA: at-a-glance quality assessment of Illumina second-generation sequencing data

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Cox, Murray P, Peterson, Daniel A, Biggs, Patrick J·2010·BMC Bioinformatics

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BACKGROUND: Illumina's second-generation sequencing platform is playing an increasingly prominent role in modern DNA and RNA sequencing efforts. However, rapid, simple, standardized and independent measures of run quality are currently lacking, as are tools to process sequences for use in downstream applications based on read-level quality data. RESULTS: We present SolexaQA, a user-friendly software package designed to generate detailed statistics and at-a-glance graphics of sequence data quality both quickly and in an automated fashion. This package contains associated software to trim sequences dynamically using the quality scores of bases within individual reads. CONCLUSION: The SolexaQA package produces standardized outputs within minutes, thus facilitating ready comparison between flow cell lanes and machine runs, as well as providing immediate diagnostic information to guide the manipulation of sequence data for downstream analyses.

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Authors
Cox, M. P., Peterson, D. A., & Biggs, P. J.
Affiliations
Massey University (NZ)
Corresponding author
Cox, Murray P
Venue
BMC Bioinformatics
Published
2010-09-27
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
485-485
ISSN
1471-2105 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2097205777
Cited by
1,357
References
9
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13.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • BMC Bioinformatics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Royal Society
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi (MAU0802)
  • Massey University
  • Marsden Fund (MAU0802)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fractal and DNA sequence analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Keywords
sequence trimming, quality control software
MeSH terms
Base Sequence, Software, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Internet

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