Good Afternoon Anton:
I've written a fastq parser here. As I did that I discovered that existing fastq formats are ambiguous and not really identifiable from their data. Are you thinking of making a new fastq specification ?
--Hiram - UCSC genome browser
Anton Nekrutenko wrote:
Let talk. This is the area of active current development. We are looking at implementing a universal fastq-like format or supporting multiple formats. Perhaps we should join efforts in ironing out specifications.
anton galaxy team