Phred base quality

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A Phred score is a measure of confidentiality (e.g. how confident are we in observing this base while sequencing). This score is encoded as one character in NGS analyses, to save storage space. Below you can find a chart to convert between characters, phred scores and the actual chance. See also this wikipedia article


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