FASTX-toolkit in iMAC

Hi, When I want to use FASTX-toolkit on iMAC , I get the following error "Invalid quality Score value (char '#' ord 35 quality value -29) on line 4 "

what does mean? Thank you!

rna-seq

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updated 9.8 years ago by Michael Dondrup

• written 9.8 years ago by Arash •

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I think this means that the encoding of the quality values in the fastq file is different from what the fastx tool expects. Presence of # indicates 'Sanger' encoding (Ascii code - 33):

perl -e 'print ord("#") - 33, "\n"'
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See : http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7596 for a solution.

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written 9.8 years ago by Michael Dondrup

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