/fastxviz

Small utility to print distribution of sequence/read lengths in fastq files

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FastXViz

Plot read length distribution from FASTA or FastQ files, in .pdf or .png format.

Install

Copy the binary corresponding to your operating system from the latest release.

Example usage

./fastxviz -in reads.fq -out readlengths.png

This will result in a plot like the one below:

Example plot

Example plot

Acknowledgements

Hat tip to the gonum plot package which this tool relies heavily upon.