FASTQ

FASTQ is a file format for storing data from DNA sequencing. FASTQ stores sequence quality scores as well as the sequence itself. Much of the data in the NCBI Short Read Archive is in the FASTQ format. Solexa/Illumina output also encodes quality scores, but uses a different system than FASTQ.

See also

• FASTQ described as part of Maq
• FASTQ at BioPerl
• FASTQ at Wikipedia