.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.7. .TH FASTQ_TO_FASTA "1" "September 2018" "fastq_to_fasta 0.0.14" "User Commands" .SH NAME fastq_to_fasta \- Convert FASTQ files to FASTA files .SH DESCRIPTION usage: fastq_to_fasta [\-h] [\-r] [\-n] [\-v] [\-z] [\-i INFILE] [\-o OUTFILE] Part of FASTX Toolkit 0.0.14 by A. Gordon (assafgordon@gmail.com) .TP [\-h] = This helpful help screen. .TP [\-r] = Rename sequence identifiers to numbers. .TP [\-n] = keep sequences with unknown (N) nucleotides. .IP Default is to discard such sequences. .TP [\-v] = Verbose \- report number of sequences. .TP If [\-o] is specified, report will be printed to STDOUT. .IP If [\-o] is not specified (and output goes to STDOUT), report will be printed to STDERR. .TP [\-z] = Compress output with GZIP. .TP [\-i INFILE] = FASTA/Q input file. default is STDIN. .IP [\-o OUTFILE] = FASTA output file. default is STDOUT. .SH SEE ALSO The quality of this automatically generated manpage might be insufficient. It is suggested to visit .IP http://hannonlab.cshl.edu/fastx_toolkit/commandline.html .P to get a better layout as well as an overview about connected FASTX tools.