samuell / fastxviz

Small utility to print distribution of sequence/read lengths in fastq files

FastXViz

Plot read length distribution from FASTA or FastQ files, in .pdf or .png format.

Install

Copy the binary corresponding to your operating system from the latest release.

Example usage

./fastxviz -in reads.fq -out readlengths.png

This will result in a plot like the one below:

Example plot

Acknowledgements

Hat tip to the gonum plot package which this tool relies heavily upon.