PacBio

Choosing the PacBio import will open the dialog shown in figure 6.12.

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Figure 6.12: Importing data from PacBio. ".bas.h5", ".fastq" and ".fasta" files are supported

We support import of three file formats containing PacBio reads:

Under General options you have the following choices:

Click Next and choose how the result of the import should be handled. We recommend choosing Save which will save the results directly to the disk.

When opening the "Element info" of sequence lists imported with the PacBio importer, the item "Platform" will display the mention PACBIO. For PacBio reads imported without the PacBio importer, it is possible to edit that field to "PACBIO" by clicking Edit next to the "Read Group" section in the Element Info view. Having the platform set to PacBio will ensure that the read mapper will perform better on PacBio reads.