title: Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Here, we present PRINSEQ for easy and rapid quality control and data preprocessing of genomic and metagenomic datasets. Summary statistics of FASTA (and QUAL) or FASTQ files are generated in tabular and graphical form and sequences can be filtered, reformatted and trimmed by a variety of options to improve downstream analysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  This open-source application was implemented in Perl and can be used as a stand alone version or accessed online through a user-friendly web interface. The source code, user help and additional information are available at http://prinseq.sourceforge.net/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. rschmied@sciences.sdsu.edu
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmieder
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D056186:Metagenomics; D011381:Programming Languages; D011786:Quality Control; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software