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Program description

454 SFF Workbench is an easy to use SFF file viewer, editor and converter. SFF Workbench is the first and only SFF editor with graphic interface on the entire bioinformatics market! With this tool we wanted to help the biologists to concentrate on their work instead of wasting time poking obscure commands in a console.

Features

SFF Viewer:

Display SFF file details (size, total number of samples/reads, key sequence, flow characters)
Display Roche details (index, manifest)
Display the average quality of each sample (before and after end trimming)
Display the sample length (before and after end trimming)
Display quality values
Display low quality/clipped ends in gray color
User-friendly graphic interface. Compact/portable (no installation required, no admin password required
Easy to use file browser (allows you to quickly locate and view SFF files)

SFF Editor:

Split huge FastQ/SFF file in chunks of x reads
Convert SFF to FastQ
Convert SFF to Fasta
Convert FastQ to Fasta (multiFasta)
Trim poly-A/T tails
Cut reads with average QV under specified threshold
Cut reads if they contain N bases (the user can specify how many)
Cut reads that are too short
Cut reads that are too long
Cut low complexity reads
Trim low quality ends. Automatically detect and cut low quality bases at the end of each read.
Split multiplexed files (MID/Barcode splitter)
Dereplicate sequences

Performance:

454 SFF Workbench loads a 400MB SFF file (containing over 122000 samples) in only 2.5 seconds. It requires only 34MB of memory to display the entire content of the file. The test was performed on a Intel i5 @2.2 GHz, 3GB or RAM, low end hard drive running Windows 7.

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Download

Name	SFF Workbench
Version	1.5.1
Date	11.2013
Package size	~ 6 MB
Download time	less than 10 seconds (for DSL)
NOTE! This tool has been replaced by NextGen SFF/FastQ Workbench

What's new in this version...

News: The speed and memory requirements have been dramatically improved since v1.0! Opening 2GB files requires less than 80MB or RAM.

What's in the package/How to install it...

SFF Workbench is delivered in a small package together with other free molecular biology tools. Download the package and double click it. The programs inside the package will be extracted to the destination folder (specified by you). Go to the destination folder and double click the program you want to use.

SFF Workbench installs in any computer even if you don't have administrator rights. To uninstall SFF Workbench, just delete it.

How to use it...

A small introduction on how to use the program is available here.

Please note that the demo version of the program will not process all reads in a SFF file. Upon program registration this limitation will be removed.

Portability...

This software tool is really small so you can easily copy it on a floppy disk or USB flash stick and take it with you or send it to your colleagues via email.

Instant feedback...

Please help us make SFF Workbench better. Let us know if you have any feature requests and we will try to integrate them.

Your feedback is important to us!

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