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.

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Details

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

Operations

Data Inputs & Outputs

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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