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- What is a good Phred score?
- What does a Phred score of 30 mean?
- What is a sequencing quality score?
- What is a Fastq quality score?
What is a good Phred score?
For many purposes, a Phred Score of 20 or above is acceptable, because this means that whatever it qualifies is 99% accurate, with a 1% chance of error.
What does a Phred score of 30 mean?
For example, if Phred assigns a Q score of 30 (Q30) to a base, this is equivalent to the probability of an incorrect base call 1 in 1000 times (Table 1). This means that the base call accuracy (i.e., the probability of a correct base call) is 99.9%.
What is a sequencing quality score?
What is a Quality Score in Sequencing? Sequencing quality scores measure the probability that a base is called incorrectly. With sequencing by synthesis (SBS) technology, each base in a read is assigned a quality score by a phred-like algorithm1,2, similar to that originally developed for Sanger sequencing experiments.
What is a Fastq quality score?
In FASTQ files, quality scores are encoded into a compact form, which uses only 1 byte per quality value. In this encoding, the quality score is represented as the character with an ASCII code equal to its value + 33.
