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fastqinfo - Return information about FASTQ file

Syntax

InfoStruct = fastqinfo(File)

Description

InfoStruct = fastqinfo(File) returns a MATLAB structure containing summary information about a FASTQ-formatted file.

Input Arguments

File	String specifying a file name or path and file name of a FASTQ-formatted file. If you specify only a file name, that file must be on the MATLAB search path or in the current folder.

Output Arguments

InfoStruct

MATLAB structure containing summary information about a FASTQ-formatted file. The structure contains the following fields. Field Description Filename Name of the file. FileModDate Modification date of the file. FileSize Size of the file in bytes. NumberOfEntries Number of sequence reads in the file.

Examples

Return a summary of the contents of a FASTQ file:

info = fastqinfo('SRR005164_1_50.fastq')

info = 

           Filename: 'SRR005164_1_50.fastq'
        FileModDate: '03-Mar-2009 14:21:51'
           FileSize: 16702
    NumberOfEntries: 50

See Also

BioIndexedFile | BioRead | fastainfo | fastaread | fastawrite | fastqread | fastqwrite | saminfo | samread | sffinfo | sffread

Tutorials

• Working with Illumina/Solexa Next-Generation Sequencing Data

Related Links

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?cmd=show&f=main&m=main&s=main

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