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How Do You Pronounce "Fastq" ?

FASTA is pronounced 'FAST-Aye', then FASTQ is pronounced "FAST-kyoō" ?

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updated by Dave Lunt • Dave Lunt • written by Nakao • Nakao

Is there any other way to pronounce fastq besides fast-queue? fast-kwa?

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written by Science_Robot Science_Robot

Someone said "fast-ku".

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written by Nakao • Nakao

That was probably a German guy not knowing how to pronounce English letters ;-)

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written by Michael Schubert Michael Schubert

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I appreciate this problem: it can be difficult to know how words should be pronounced when you have not heard other people say them. And people do not always agree :-)

Myself, I would say "q as in queue". Regarding FASTA, I usually say "fast-aye" for the alignment software, but "fast-ah" (a short "a", like "cat") for the sequence format.

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written by Neilfws Neilfws

I've never actually heard fast-aye before :P Only fast-ah

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written by Gww Gww

Is that American, British, or Aussie? Fast-aye sounds Aussie to me. I agree with Q as in queue, though :)

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written by Mary Mary

fast-aye, no waye, I'll have confirm this at the source;)

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written by Marcin Cieslik • Marcin Cieslik

I've never heard fast-ah used. If FASTP is fast-pee, FASTN is fast-en, then FASTA really has to be fast-ay, and FASTQ must be fast-queue.

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written by Dave Lunt • Dave Lunt

I've always heard it pronounced fast-q (q as in queue)

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written by Gww Gww

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