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A 15-minute hands-on tutorial: quality-filter FASTQ reads with fastp and compare read counts before and after with seqtk, all in the browser with nothing to install.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: FASTQ, fastp, quality control, read filtering, seqtk, workflow

Competency level: • Beginner

Resource type: hands-on tutorial

Learning objectives:

  • Count reads and bases with seqtk size
  • Filter low-quality reads with fastp
  • Read the fastp report: what passed and why the rest failed
  • See how a stricter threshold changes the result

Authors: IEETA, University of Aveiro

External resources:
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