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Read names not normal #898

Closed vappiah closed 3 months ago

vappiah commented 5 months ago

Hi Developers,

I used fasterq-dump to download reads from SRA fasterq-dump --split-files -e 8 ERR024816 And output files were named as ERR024816_1 and ERR024816_3 I was expecting _1 and _2 since the data was paired-end. Are the names okay?

Vincent

wraetz commented 5 months ago

Yes the filenames are as expected in the '--split-files' mode. What you actually want is the '--split-3' mode. That is also the default mode. That means 'fasterq-dump -e 8 ERR024816' is the right commandline for you. You can see the details at: [https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki/HowTo:-fasterq-dump]