Where Can I Get Some Illumina Casava Input Files?

Question

[Misha]

I am a software developer who is investigating software optimization techniques. I got maximal marks in high-school biology and moved onto period 3 elements.

I was told that CASAVA produces enormous output files, and I am interesting in procuring some kind of file that will produce an enormous output file. I want terabytes or a few hundred gigabytes, at the least. The validation examples don't do this.

Are there some publicly available files that can do this? Are there some genomes online?

==Edits==

1. I want to profile certain Disk I/O performance characteristics when writing large files. I have a harddrive with lots of wires and a some fancy equipment.
2. I understand that Casava takes in BCL files and spits out FASTQ. I want it to spit out a large FASTQ file. SO I guess I need the BCL files? Is there a public repository?

[Sean Davis]

What is the input that your algorithm needs? Are you looking for FASTQ files, or something else?

[Zev.Kronenberg]

Can you fill us in on what you are trying to accomplish?

[Ido Tamir]

If you are only doing read/write benchmarks generate the data on the fly with a small program and write it out. Thats easier than download in correct sizes or trim it to the correct sizes.

Answer 1

[Zev.Kronenberg]

Thanks for editing your post.

Option 1 generate fake fastq files to you specification. This was covered here:

biostar - What NGS read simulators are available for paired-end data?

Option 2 grab some fastq data from Short Read Archive:

SRA

Option 3 find someone who has casava files.

Happy benchmarking.

[Misha]

Doesn't CASAVA output FASTQ? I'm interested in benchmarking CASAVA itself, so I need fake BCL files..?