Is there an easy way to separate a large fastq file of raw reads in half? I would imagine this should be pretty easy. I want to see how assembling half of my reads would do with some command... but I also have access to CLC and there doesn't seem to be a way to specify 50% of reads. This is a 70M+ 100 bp dataset.
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The head command in Linux also alllows you to extract a number of lines from the start of the file (or use the tail command for the end of the file), without splitting the whole file:
In analogy to the above:
$ wc -l file.fastq
100 file.fastq
$ head -n 50 file.fastq > halfAFile.fastq
cheers
Micha
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The head command in Linux also alllows you to extract a number of lines from the start of the file (or use the tail command for the end of the file)
Code:split -n 2 file.fa file.split.fa. # for splitting a file into two
Last edited by gringer; 11-11-2013, 08:33 PM.
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