wf-transcriptomes-v202/docs/06_input_example.md
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This workflow accepts FASTQ files as input.

The FASTQ input parameters for this workflow accept one of three cases: (i) the path to a single FASTQ file; (ii) the path to a top-level directory containing FASTQ files; (iii) the path to a directory containing one level of sub-directories which in turn contain FASTQ files. In the first and second cases (i and ii), a sample name can be supplied with --sample. In the last case (iii), the data is assumed to be multiplexed with the names of the sub-directories as barcodes. In this case, a sample sheet can be provided with --sample_sheet. If you are using the workflow for differential expression analysis the last case(iii) will be expected with a minimum of 4 samples (at least 2 replicates of each sample to compare) but we recommend 6 samples (three replicates).

(i)                     (ii)                 (iii)    
input_reads.fastq   ─── input_directory  ─── input_directory
                        ├── reads0.fastq     ├── barcode01
                        └── reads1.fastq     │   ├── reads0.fastq
                                             │   └── reads1.fastq
                                             ├── barcode02
                                             │   ├── reads0.fastq
                                             │   ├── reads1.fastq
                                             │   └── reads2.fastq
                                             └── barcode03
                                              └── reads0.fastq