Adapt the package to read bunzipped fastq files?

lh3 / seqtk

Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats

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Closed rbpisupati closed 7 years ago

rbpisupati commented 7 years ago

Hi,

bz2 zip fastq files arent readable by seqtk. Can you provide reading bz2 compressed fastq as well?

Thanks, Rahul

lh3 commented 7 years ago

No, seqtk won't support bzip2. I strongly discourage the use of bzip2 for sequence data because its decompression speed is far too slow.