sub.sample quality file

Feature requests
1

Hey,

Would it be possible to include the quality file as an option in the sub.sample command?
I currently have huge HiSeq datasets and it would be amazing if in the future this option would be available for extracting small proportions of the fasta & quality file to optimize my pipeline before running the real datasets.

Cheers,
Uli

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If you’re on a linux computer you could do something like…

head -n 40000 my.fastq > my.subsample.fastq

You’d run this from the command prompt (not in mothur) and it would return the first 10000 sequences from your fastq file and put them in a file called my.subsample.fastq.

Pat

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Thanks,
that helped!