fqextract

fqextract extracts subsets of FASTQ reads to enable targeted selection of sequencing reads for downstream genomic, metagenomic, and phylogenetic analyses within the Galaxy platform.


Key Features:

  • FASTQ subsetting: Extracts subsets of FASTQ reads for focused downstream analysis.
  • Galaxy integration: Integrates with the Galaxy execution engine and is deployed within the Galaxy@Pasteur instance to manage and process large-scale bioinformatics workflows.
  • API and library interfacing: Interfaces with Galaxy's API or the Bioblend library to initiate and control data extraction tasks.
  • Cluster execution: Executes data extraction tasks on the Institut Pasteur cluster.

Scientific Applications:

  • Metagenomic Data Analysis: Used in workflows such as MetaGenSense to extract FASTQ subsets for analysis of microbial communities or specific genomic regions.
  • Phylogenetic Studies: Supports dataset preparation for phylogenetic analysis workflows such as NGphylogeny.fr by selecting relevant sequences from FASTQ data.

Methodology:

Interfaces with Galaxy's API or the Bioblend library to execute FASTQ read extraction tasks on the Institut Pasteur cluster.

Topics

Collections

Details

Maturity:
Mature
Tool Type:
web application
Added:
12/19/2016
Last Updated:
8/27/2025

Operations

Data Inputs & Outputs

Query and retrieval

Publications

Afgan E, Baker D, van den Beek M, Blankenberg D, Bouvier D, Čech M, Chilton J, Clements D, Coraor N, Eberhard C, Grüning B, Guerler A, Hillman-Jackson J, Von Kuster G, Rasche E, Soranzo N, Turaga N, Taylor J, Nekrutenko A, Goecks J. The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2016 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 2016;44(W1):W3-W10. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw343. PMID:27137889. PMCID:PMC4987906.

Mareuil F, Doppelt-Azeroual O, Ménager H. A public Galaxy platform at Pasteur used as an execution engine for web services. Unknown Journal. 2017. doi:10.7490/f1000research.1114334.1.

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