Description

Filtlong filters long reads based on quality measures or short read data.

Input

name:type
description
pattern

meta:map

Groovy Map containing sample information e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end

]

shortreads:file

fastq file

*.{fq,fastq,fq.gz,fastq.gz}

longreads:file

fastq file

*.{fq,fastq,fq.gz,fastq.gz}

Output

name:type
description
pattern

reads

meta:map

Groovy Map containing sample information e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end

]

*.fastq.gz:file

Filtered (compressed) fastq file

*.fastq.gz

log

meta:map

Groovy Map containing sample information e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end

]

*.log:file

Standard error logging file containing summary statistics

*.log

versions

versions.yml:file

File containing software versions

versions.yml

Tools

filtlong
GPL v3

Filtlong is a tool for filtering long reads. It can take a set of long reads and produce a smaller, better subset. It uses both read length (longer is better) and read identity (higher is better) when choosing which reads pass the filter.