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Paired-end mode : Read1 quality revision #39

Open hubert93 opened 7 years ago

hubert93 commented 7 years ago

I've trimmed nexteraXT adapter for paired-end illumina data, using this command.

skewer -x CTGTCTCTTATACACATCT sample_1.fastq.gz sample_2.fastq.gz

And i realized that the quality of trimmed read1 is revised to better score. For example,

Raw read1) @MISEQ:70:000000000-AWLU0:1:1101:14472:1001 1:N:0:TAGGCATGAAGGAGTA NTGG ... ACCAGACGGTGAGTAACGAAAGCCAGGGGCGCGAACCGGATTAGAAACCCTTGTAGTCCCTGTCTCT +

8AC ... 3:C=>5ACGGG>GGFF>7=DGB47CCF7CC@>BD))9ED<C=<6@7CF6C#################

Trimmed read1) @MISEQ:70:000000000-AWLU0:1:1101:14472:1001 1:N:0:TAGGCATGAAGGAGTA NTGG ... ACCAGACGGTGAGTAACGAAAGCCAGGGGCGCGAACCGGATTAGAAACCCTTGTAGTCC +

8AC ... GGGGGFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGFFGGGGGGGCCCCC

I assume that quality of read1 is corrected by being trimmed adapter sequence using paired-end information. I wonder it is true, and whether there is any way to prevent it.