Aligning Reads To Specific Chromosome Using Bwa
Hello Everyone,I have whole genome illumina paired end reads and I want to align my reads to specific chromosome (chr 21) using BWA. I was thinking of aligning the entire reads to fasta file of the...
View ArticlePicard Matequery Slows Process To A Crawl
I'm looking to iterate through an indexed BAM file using picard and perform various tests on both a read and it's mate. For some I would need the full SAMRecord for the mate so I can't just use the...
View ArticleHow To Check If Illumina Fastq Is Single Or Paired End With Minimal Sequence Id
Hi all, I am trying to check if a FASTQ is single or paired end. From wikipedia I saw that default format has to be like this:@HWUSI-EAS100R:6:73:941:1973#0/1but in my case the sequence id is...
View ArticleShould We Dump Illumina Pair-End Mapping Results In Sam With Mapq=0, But Good...
hi, everyone! I am working on illumina pair-end sequencingAfter mapping by bwa, I got a pair of reads with MAPQ=0, with both reads mapped to more than one place. But the Template Length is OK, and I...
View ArticleCounting sense reads in bacterial paired-end RNA-seq data
Hi, I'm trying to count reads mapping to sense strand. I have doubts which counts file I should chose from this pipeline. I think is "plate_R.counts" because has more reads counted in total. Am I...
View ArticleOrientation in paired-end sequencing?
I am new to bioinformatics and currently learning how to use Bowtie 2. As written in the manual: A pair that aligns with the expected relative mate orientation and with the expected range of distances...
View ArticleSamtools Mpileup And Overlapping Paired-End Reads
I am using samtools mpileup to generate a pileup for paired-end RNA sequencing data. I am curious about how samtools handles pair mates whose read mappings overlap. With regard to the simple example...
View ArticleCounting Reads On Paired-End Strand-Specific Rnaseq Data
Hello everybody, I've a strand-specific paired-end library on which I'd like to perform some standard DGE analysis. However I'm quite unclear about how to go about counting reads. Usually when I have a...
View ArticleSorting Fastq Files After Trimming (Orphans And Pe)
I have a bunch of Illumina PE data that has been run through fastx trimmer and clipper. I am ready to map these reads, but am needing to create 2 files for paired end reads (the left and right hand...
View ArticlePaired-End Protocol For Micrornaseq
In another post, a guy wanted to know how to analyze paired-end data and use them to predict microRNAs.I never heard about a paired-end protocol for miRNAseq and would be interested in some more...
View ArticleTrimming Adapters For Paired-End Sequences
Hi all,I got illumina paired end fastq files. They told me to trim read 2 at the beginning for ~20 to 30 bp due to the WGA adapters. Can we find the adapters by looking in to the quality? Which tool is...
View ArticleShould I merge bacterial RNA-seq paired-end data?
Hi,I have bacterial RNA-seq data from paired-end reads (2x75). I'm interested in sense/antisense differential expression.I would like to know if makes sense to merge R1 and R2 into one read (if...
View ArticleIs It Ok To Use One End Of A Set Of Paired-End Reads As A Set Of Single Reads?
Hi,I'm wondering if it's OK to use one end of a set of paired-end reads as a set of single reads?I just want to get a single read data set of a sample, but currently there's only paired-end data...
View ArticleBest way to map paired-end, uniquely mapped reads with Bowtie2?
This has come up before, but I have never been satisfied with, or completly understood, the answers. My issue is how can Bowtie2 be used to map uniquely mapping paired-end reads (Illumina) to a genome...
View ArticleTophat 2 - Both Pairs Map Concordantly
Hi,I have just run the following command tophat2 --solexa1.3-quals -p 12 -r 80 --max-multihits 1 --no-mixed --no-discordant /home/Turkey/Index/turkeyindex /home/Turkey/WTCHG24920061sequence1.fa...
View Articlejoin non-overlapping paired-end reads
I have a batch of illumina paired end reads with a shorter than anticipated reverse sequence for a ~550bp amplicon.The joining tools which I have used before (i.e. USEARCH, ea-utils) talk about merging...
View ArticleDoes Every Read In Paired-End Sam File Have The 0X0001 Flag?
Hello everyone, I have a simple, generic, question about SAM format flags in paired-end Illumina data. Does every read in a SAM file from a paired-end sequencing run automatically have the 0x0001 flag?...
View ArticleMerging Illumina Paired End Reads
Dear All,I have fastq a dataset containing forward and reverse sequences obtained through paired end module of Illumina platform. I am trying to merge these paired end reads. I have a query which I...
View ArticleCounting reads for gene in bacterial genomes
Hi,I'm analyzing paired-end expression libraries of E. coli and wanted to get some advise about how to count the number of reads for each gene. After mapping the reads to the genome I use htseq-count...
View ArticleIn Paired-End Data, If One Read Of The Pair Is Unmapped, Is That Pair...
Hello everyone, I have a simple question about generic paired-end Illumina data. If one read of a pair is unmapped, does this automatically mean that the pair is improper and is (un)flagged in a SAM...
View Article