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How to convert ONT longread or illumina fastq to fasta file

Hi,

Is there a way to convert ONT longread/illumina fastq to fasta file

Thank you

denovo assembly genome

2 answers

Using reformat.sh from BBMap suite

reformat.sh -Xmx4g in=your.fastq out=your.fa qin=33

If you have paired-end Illumina data then use

reformat.sh -Xmx4g in1=R1.fq.gz in2=R2.fq.gz out1=R1.fa out2=R2.fa 

IDBA assembler has a utility called fq2fa that does what you want.

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