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GATB Minia assembly pipeline
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Question about input file type #29

Closed YuanwenGuo closed 4 years ago

YuanwenGuo commented 4 years ago

Hello minia group,

I wonder if it's possible to run scaffolding if I only have illumina pair end reads, without any mate pair reads?

It seems BESST needs mate pair reads, because "-orientation" is one of required fields, and commonly only mate pair reads provide this kind of information (If I did't understand wrongly). But for gatb-minia-pipeline, only raw fastq reads is required for inputs. Therefore, I am not sure whether mate pair reads is necessary for scaffolding in gatb-minia-pipeline?

Thank you, Yuanwen

rchikhi commented 4 years ago

Hi, yes it is possible, paired-end orientation is usually fr. Mate-pairs aren't necessary. Note that paired-end scaffolding adds relatively little benefits (just some extra contiguity)

YuanwenGuo commented 4 years ago

Thank you! I will give it a try.

Best, Yuanwen