Synthetic data can be a viable alternative to real data in many situations. For example, you might need to explore the effects of certain data characteristics on your data models and need to construct datasets exhibiting specific properties to test your data, for example, to verify the accuracy of the NextGENe Alignment function or to test the NextGENe assembly function. You can use the NextGENe Reads Simulator Tool to create synthetic read data, including paired reads, from a .fasta reference file.