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How to identify fastq source - Illumina or ONT?

There are lot of publicly available sample fastq files.

How to identify if they are generated from Illumina machines or ONT(Oxford Nanopore Technology) machines or any other machines?

ont illumina fastq

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Assuming the data has not been modified in any way, you could look for a couple of things

    @3cfgt6cd-3671-4tgd-c61g-0c759bt068d0 runid=eb6214851489c8e00eb0dcbd00d737f7cccxxxx read=2178 ch=232 start_time=2021-11-21T10:35:44Z
  • Quality scores

    Illumina reads - scores are going to be closer to Q35+

    Nanopore reads - scores are going to be generally lower

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