NAME

trim_fastq.pl - Trims sequence and quality string of fastq files on the fly

SYNOPSIS

trim_fastq.pl [-f FILE] [-u INTEGER] [-d INTEGER] [options]

DESCRIPTION

This program trims the sequence and qualitystring fields from a fastq file by user defined length, for example to allow re-mapping if mapping quality is not sufficient without trimming.

OPTIONS

-f

Fastq file for trimming

-u

Number of nucleotides to trim from read/qualitystring start

-d

Number of nucleotides to trim from read/qualitystring end

--help -h

Print short help

--man

Prints the manual page and exits

AUTHOR

Joerg Fallmann <joerg.fallmann@univie.ac.at>