Use when working with ShortRead, the Bioconductor package for FASTQ and FASTA quality control, chunked read iteration, random sampling, filtering, trimming, and QA reporting in R. Covers FastqStreamer
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Install the MCP server or CLI to instantly fetch ShortRead documentation:
Install command
claude mcp add biocontext7 -- npx @biocontext7/mcpOr share this page: biocontext7.com/tools/shortread
AfterQC — automatic filtering, trimming, error removing and quality control for FASTQ data. Processes Illumina paired-end and single-end reads with automatic adapter detection, overlap-based error cor
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fastp — ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor for quality control, adapter trimming, quality filtering, per-read trimming, polyG/polyX removal, UMI processing, base correction, deduplication, and c
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Chopper — fast Rust-based quality, length, and GC content filtering and trimming tool for long-read sequencing data (Oxford Nanopore, PacBio) in FASTQ format. Successor to NanoFilt with multithreaded
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pigz (Parallel Implementation of GZip) — multi-threaded drop-in replacement for gzip that compresses and decompresses files using multiple CPU cores. Supports gzip, zlib, and single-entry zip formats.
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PRINSEQ++ — high-performance C++ tool for quality control and preprocessing of FASTQ sequencing reads. Filters and trims reads by quality score, length, GC content, sequence complexity (DUST/entropy),
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