## Utilities / Convert FASTQ to FASTA

### Description

Given a FASTQ file, this tool will convert it to FASTA format. Reads can be also filtered for unknown nucleotides (Ns), and sequence identifiers can be renamed as numbers.

### Parameters

- Remove sequences with unknown nucleotides (yes, no) [yes]
- Rename sequence identifiers as numbers (yes, no) [no]

### Details

Converts read files to FASTA format, which is a suitable input format for many traditional sequence analysis tools such as BLAST and EMBOSS. Note that the base quality information available in FASTQ format is not available in FASTA.

### Output

A FASTA file containing the reads.

### Reference

This tool is based on the FASTQ-to-FASTA converter of the FASTX package.