Here I’ll summarize some Linux commands that can help us to work with millions of DNA sequences from New Generation Sequencing (NGS). A file storing biological sequences with extension ‘.fastq’ or ‘.fq’ is a file in FASTQ format, if it is also compressed with GZIP  the suffix will be ‘.fastq.gz’ or ‘.fq.gz’. A FASTQ file … Continue reading List of helpful Linux commands to process FASTQ files from NGS experiments