Glossary

FASTX

The FASTX toolkit is a collection of command line tools for short-reads FASTQ files preprocessing, developed by Hannon's lab in Cold Spring Harbour. It allows to prepare NGS data to further analysis by filtering out low-quality reads, trimming sequences based on quality and performing many other tasks. Command line version can de downloaded here (only Linux and MacOS versions). Also FASTX toolkit is incorporated in the Galaxy framework and can be used online.