The remove_unmatched_files() function discards from the 16S processing pipeline any R1 fastq files that do not appear to have a matching R2 fastq file, and vise versa. It currently performs this matching using the filenames only. This causes problems when there are slight mismatches in the file naming conventions between R1 and R2 fastq files of the same sequencing run, as for run BFDG8:
The
remove_unmatched_files()
function discards from the 16S processing pipeline any R1 fastq files that do not appear to have a matching R2 fastq file, and vise versa. It currently performs this matching using the filenames only. This causes problems when there are slight mismatches in the file naming conventions between R1 and R2 fastq files of the same sequencing run, as for run BFDG8: