From 506c620a369e0028e70672165b2bcf776b8a1ad1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Steinegger <martin.steinegger@mpibpc.mpg.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:00:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove check of same qual string length

---
 src/assembler/mergereads.cpp | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/assembler/mergereads.cpp b/src/assembler/mergereads.cpp
index 17138b70..5620665e 100644
--- a/src/assembler/mergereads.cpp
+++ b/src/assembler/mergereads.cpp
@@ -53,10 +53,6 @@ int mergereads(int argn, const char **argv, const Command& command) {
                 const KSeqWrapper::KSeqEntry &read1 = kseq1->entry;
                 const KSeqWrapper::KSeqEntry &read2 = kseq2->entry;
 
-                if (read1.qual.l != read2.qual.l) {
-                    Debug(Debug::ERROR) << "Invalid FASTQ entry " << i << ".\n";
-                    return EXIT_FAILURE;
-                }
 
                 r1->seq =  read1.sequence.s;
                 r1->seq_len = read1.sequence.l;