fastqinfo

Return information about FASTQ file

Syntax

InfoStruct = fastqinfo(File)

Description

InfoStruct = fastqinfo(File) returns a MATLAB^® structure containing summary information about a FASTQ-formatted file.

Input Arguments

File

Character vector or string specifying a file name or path and file name of a FASTQ-formatted file. If you specify only a file name, that file must be on the MATLAB search path or in the current folder.

Output Arguments

InfoStruct

MATLAB structure containing summary information about a FASTQ-formatted file. The structure contains the following fields.

Field	Description
`Filename`	Name of the file.
`FilePath`	Path to the file
`FileModDate`	Modification date of the file.
`FileSize`	Size of the file in bytes.
`NumberOfEntries`	Number of sequence reads in the file.

Examples

Return a summary of the contents of a FASTQ file:

info = fastqinfo('SRR005164_1_50.fastq')

info = 

           Filename: 'SRR005164_1_50.fastq'
           FilePath: 'D:\2010_08_24_h11m43s32_job6027_pass\matlab\toolbox\bioinfo\biodemos'
        FileModDate: '03-Mar-2009 14:21:51'
           FileSize: 16702
    NumberOfEntries: 50

Version History

Introduced in R2009b