The read454 function in ShortRead will parse fasta and qual files into a
ShortReadQ. No trivial way to write that out as a fastq, but it could be
done.

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Michael Dondrup <Michael.Dondrup@uni.no>wrote:

> Hi,
> if you got fasta + qual files, there is an example perl script here:
>
> http://biostar.stackexchange.com/questions/2774/how-to-convert-454-data-to-sam-format/2778#2778
> have nothing in R yet, but that shows the principle and could be easily
> done in R. If you don't have a qual file,
> you will have to make the values up using eg. some constant values.
>
> Using an offset of 33 gives you Sanger style quality code, while -i think-
> using offset 64 should yield Illumina
> score codes.
>
> Best
> Michael
>
> On Nov 24, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Chris Fields wrote:
>
> > Just curious, but where would the quality score information come from?
>  Or do you have them in a separate .qual file?
> >
> > chris
> >
> > On Nov 24, 2010, at 5:56 AM, Bin Ma wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Is there any function can transfer Fasta to Fastq file.
> >>
> >>
> >> With Best Regards
> >>
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