File Formats #2: FASTQ

In this video, I explain the FASTQ file format — one of the most widely used standards for storing raw sequencing data, including both the nucleotide sequences and their quality scores. 📄 Learn More 🔗 FASTQ format → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format 🔗 Phred quality scores → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phred_quality_score 🧬 Major Sequencing Platforms 🔗 Illumina → https://www.illumina.com/ 🔗 Oxford Nanopore Technologies → https://nanoporetech.com/ 🔗 Pacific Biosciences → https://www.pacb.com/ 💾 Key Bioinformatics Databases 🔗 Sequence Read Archive (SRA) → https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra 🔗 Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) → https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ 🔗 European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) → https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home 📺 More Genomics & Bioinformatics Videos 👉 Subscribe for tutorials, data analysis guides, and sequencing deep dives!