dzerbino/velvet — pull request #18 by drpowell (2012-06-04 07:14:20+00:00)
Title: Add a '-fmtAuto' option to velveth

This will auto-detect between fastA and fastQ, and attempt to auto-detect any compression. The decompression is done using external programs, that is, it will attempt to use gunzip or bunzip2 if they are in the path.