If Illumina 1.8+ is already using the Sanger FASTQ encoding, the file should be recognized by downstream applications, like Quality statistics computer, quality filter etc. However, my file is not visible by those programs and when I click on it, only "uploaded fastq file" is displayed, without encoding details.

S.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Peter Cock p.j.a.cock@googlemail.comwrote:

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM, arabidopsis svinekod@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all,

Fastq groomer has Solexa or Illumina 1.3+ as an input quality format. I asked at the sequencing facility about their machine and output and they said their format was Illumina 1.8+ (the newest). I tried to convert my fastq file into Sanger by fastq groomer, using Illumina 1.3+ as an input option and got all reads with quality of around 10... Does it mean that Galaxy cannot be used on a dataset with 1.8+ encoding or something else was wrong?

Thanks,

Slon

Illumina 1.8+ is already using the Sanger FASTQ encoding, so you don't need to convert it with the groomer.

I think the Galaxy team might still recommend it as it doubles as a sanity test for corrupt FASTQ files.

Peter

actually Illumina 1.8+ has one more quality value higher than fastqsanger (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format )

my question now I guess is if I use fastqsanger would it break anything when it encounters the 'J' in the qual values?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Peter Cock p.j.a.cock@googlemail.comwrote:

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM, arabidopsis svinekod@gmail.com wrote:

...

If Illumina 1.8+ is already using the Sanger FASTQ encoding, the file

should

...

be recognized by downstream applications, like Quality statistics

computer,

...

quality filter etc. However, my file is not visible by those programs and when I click on it, only "uploaded fastq file" is displayed, without encoding details.

S.

Hello Slon,

In case you are still having issues, the best use case for Illumina 1.8+ data is to run the FASTQ Groomer tool with the option "Sanger". As Peter noted, this assigns the expected datatype plus verifies content before investing time in downstream analysis.

Please let us know if more help is needed,

Best,

Jen Galaxy team

On 10/18/11 1:02 AM, arabidopsis wrote:

Hi all,

Fastq groomer has Solexa or Illumina 1.3+ as an input quality format. I asked at the sequencing facility about their machine and output and they said their format was Illumina 1.8+ (the newest). I tried to convert my fastq file into Sanger by fastq groomer, using Illumina 1.3+ as an input option and got all reads with quality of around 10... Does it mean that Galaxy cannot be used on a dataset with 1.8+ encoding or something else was wrong?

Thanks,

Slon

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Howdy, Rich,

My interpretation of the error report is that the fastq file you are trying to groom contains the indicated text (lab/solexa_public/Zon/ 111021_WICMT-SOLEXA_64KF7AAXX/QualityScore/s_3_1_sequence.txt) on a line where it expects a valid fastq header. I believe a valid header line would begin with an at sign ("@"). So perhaps somewhere along the way, your fastq file's contents were replaced by a filename.

Bob H

On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Richard Mark White wrote:

Hi, So, I am getting a fastq groomer error on some illumina data, with the following error. any ideas?

There was an error reading your input file. Your input file is likely malformed. It is suggested that you double-check your original input file for errors -- helpful information for this purpose has been provided below. However, if you think that you have encountered an actual error with this tool, please do tell us by using the bug reporting mechanism.

The reported error is: 'Invalid fastq header: lab/solexa_public/Zon/ 111021_WICMT-SOLEXA_64KF7AAXX/QualityScore/s_3_1_sequence.txt

rich

From: Jennifer Jackson jen@bx.psu.edu To: arabidopsis svinekod@gmail.com Cc: galaxy-user@lists.bx.psu.edu Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [galaxy-user] fastq groomer

Hello Slon,

In case you are still having issues, the best use case for Illumina 1.8+ data is to run the FASTQ Groomer tool with the option "Sanger". As Peter noted, this assigns the expected datatype plus verifies content before investing time in downstream analysis.

Please let us know if more help is needed,

Best,

Jen Galaxy team

On 10/18/11 1:02 AM, arabidopsis wrote:

...

Hi all,

Fastq groomer has Solexa or Illumina 1.3+ as an input quality

format. I

...

asked at the sequencing facility about their machine and output

and they

...

said their format was Illumina 1.8+ (the newest). I tried to

convert my

...

fastq file into Sanger by fastq groomer, using Illumina 1.3+ as an

input

...

option and got all reads with quality of around 10... Does it mean

that

...

Galaxy cannot be used on a dataset with 1.8+ encoding or something

else

...

was wrong?

Thanks,

Slon

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