NAME

fastq-qscore - detect a files quality score encoding

SYNOPSIS

fastq-qscore [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

The program looks inspects a FASTQ file to try to determine the quality score encoding used. Specifically, it will classify a file as one of:

Sanger/Phred+33
Illumina 1.8/Phred+33
Illumina 1.5/Phred+64
Illumina 1.3/Phred+64
Solexa/Solexa+64

The program is modeled roughly after the Unix file command, which inspects files to determine their type.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Output a help message and exit.

-V, --version

Output version information and exit.

AUTHOR

Written by Daniel C. Jones <dcjones@cs.washington.edu>