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Fastp: an Ultra-fast All-in-one FASTQ Preprocessor

Overview
Journal Bioinformatics
Publisher Oxford University Press
Specialty Biology
Date 2018 Nov 14
PMID 30423086
Citations 8465
Authors
Shifu Chen
Yanqing Zhou
Yaru Chen
Jia Gu
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Abstract

Motivation: Quality control and preprocessing of FASTQ files are essential to providing clean data for downstream analysis. Traditionally, a different tool is used for each operation, such as quality control, adapter trimming and quality filtering. These tools are often insufficiently fast as most are developed using high-level programming languages (e.g. Python and Java) and provide limited multi-threading support. Reading and loading data multiple times also renders preprocessing slow and I/O inefficient.

Results: We developed fastp as an ultra-fast FASTQ preprocessor with useful quality control and data-filtering features. It can perform quality control, adapter trimming, quality filtering, per-read quality pruning and many other operations with a single scan of the FASTQ data. This tool is developed in C++ and has multi-threading support. Based on our evaluation, fastp is 2-5 times faster than other FASTQ preprocessing tools such as Trimmomatic or Cutadapt despite performing far more operations than similar tools.

Availability And Implementation: The open-source code and corresponding instructions are available at https://github.com/OpenGene/fastp.

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