Different types of input can be provided: fastq, sra, read/count and fasta format.
The files can be provided as plain text (fastq, read/count and fasta) or compressed with gzip (*.gz extension). Please try whenever possible upload *.gz files.
Please note that sRNAbench infers the file format by means of the extension. unknown extensions are treated as read/count format. For example sample.gz would be treated as read/count format file. The program will fail if the file format is incorrectly inferred.
The recognized extensions are:
fasta: fa, fasta, fa.gz, fasta.gz
read/count: rc, rc.gz
sra: sra
fastq: fastq.gz, fastq, fq, fq.gz, FASTQ, FASTQ.gz, fastQ, fastQ.gz
File format explanation:
read/count
read/count format is tab separated with two columns: the read sequence separated by the read count (number of times this read was sequenced)
read read count
ATTACG… 3000
GCATT… 2500
fasta format:
>readID#3000
ATTACG…
>readID#2500
Note that spaces between the readID and the read count are also allowed.