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FASTA and FASTQ examples

Hi everyone. Fisrt of all, i'd like to say sorry for that silly question.

I want to test STAR aligner, so i need a test data.

Where i could download reads and reference genome to do that? And it should be small for better understanding what i will get. I didn't find any small files for that.

Thanks.

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updated by Dan D Dan D • written by dshulgin dshulgin

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You can download reads from the NCBI SRA database. You will have the choice to download only small sequences, or to extract from a file, a portion of it to make it small. It is up to you

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Antonio R. Franco Antonio R. Franco

Thanks, finally i've found out how to download without installing SRA toolkit etc.

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written by dshulgin dshulgin

On the Subread package (which is another mapper/aligner worth of consideration) there is a "test" folder, with small fasta and fastq files.

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written by h.mon h.mon

Thanks, didn't know about that.

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written by dshulgin dshulgin

You could also create simulated data.

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written by Dan D Dan D

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