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I use awk constantly in bioinformatics, for many of the file formats designed to store genomic data, awk is the easiest tool you can use for processing.
by torcete 5y ago
I use awk constantly in bioinformatics, for many of the file formats designed to store genomic data, awk is the easiest tool you can use for processing.
- jhbadger 5y agoThere's even a version of awk specifically designed for bioinformatics that natively knows how to handle fasta, fastq, and sam files, among other formats. https://github.com/lh3/bioawk https://github.com/lh3/bioawk
- unemphysbro 5y agoI did the exact same thing! quickly looking at averages/errors, a simple awk one-liner will do.