<![CDATA[BOL: WHich method is best to convert pacBio reads in .sra format to .fastq format?]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/answers/view/39407/which-method-is-best-to-convert-pacbio-reads-in-sra-format-to-fastq-format? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/answers/view/39407/which-method-is-best-to-convert-pacbio-reads-in-sra-format-to-fastq-format Sun, 26 May 2019 11:16:15 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/answers/view/39407/which-method-is-best-to-convert-pacbio-reads-in-sra-format-to-fastq-format <![CDATA[WHich method is best to convert pacBio reads in .sra format to .fastq format?]]> i am using fastq dump to convert sra files into fastq.

In case of fastq this tool gives me a message on terminal "Ignoring --- number of reads as the spot length is less than 1"). if my sra file is of 6GBs, i always get fastq file less than the afforementioned size. Ideally it must be a larger fastq file (~10gbs).Why is this so?

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