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FASTQ format

nucleic acid sequence and base qualities file format
File Format Q3063023

Facts

7 properties

Identity

Instance of
file format, textual data format[2]
More facts +6
Publication date
2000[5]
Based on
FASTA format[3]
Developer
Wellcome Sanger Institute[4]
File extension
fastq, fq[7][8]
File format identification pattern
405345515F4944[9]
Media type
text/plain[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en FASTQ format en FASTQ de FASTQ-Format es Formato FASTQ es .fq es .fastq es FASTQ fa قالب فستک he פורמט FASTQ id Format FASTQ ru формат FASTQ zh FASTQ格式
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Freebase ID
/m/05zt8mz
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
30439317

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🔗 Connections
← Readable file format 3
Mathematica, CodonCode Aligner, Newbler
← Writable file format 2
Mathematica, CodonCode Aligner
Based on 1
FASTA format
Developer 1
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Instance of 1
file format
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Summary

FASTQ format is a file format[1].

Related Entities

Mathematica Wellcome Sanger Institute

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  4. [5] ↑ . reference.wolfram.com. Retrieved . reference.wolfram.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . TrID. mark0.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . TrID. mark0.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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