nathanhaigh

#!/bin/bash
# Usage: deinterleave_fastq.sh < interleaved.fastq f.fastq r.fastq [compress]
# 
# Deinterleaves a FASTQ file of paired reads into two FASTQ
# files specified on the command line. Optionally GZip compresses the output
# FASTQ files using pigz if the 3rd command line argument is the word "compress"
# 
# Can deinterleave 100 million paired reads (200 million total
# reads; a 43Gbyte file), in memory (/dev/shm), in 4m15s (255s)
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