While working with ONT data

[anukrati0306]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byt

after running the command "<longread_file>.fastq.gz --split -t 30 --platform ont -o /path/.fasta"
the error shows UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byt

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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byt

after running the command "<longread_file>.fastq.gz --split -t 30 --platform ont -o /path/.fasta" the error shows UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byt

Hi anukrati

I got the same problem with you, have you solved it ?

thanks

[shelkmike]

This is the same problem as in #9 . Just decompress the file with reads before giving it to VeChat.