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  • DNAmethylome
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    • Oct 2012
    • 13

    Tophat chromosome position greater than chromosome size

    I use tophat to map the rna-seq reads (paired-end). It seems that some of the reads in the .sam do not make sense. Please see some examples below:

    Example line 1:
    NB500923:20:H7WCJBGXX:1:12109:13961:14748 385 chr1 11646 3 151M chr22 114359002 0 CTTTTGGATTTTTGCCAGTCTAACAGGTGAAGCCCTGGAGATTCTTATTAGTGATTTGGGCTGGGGCCTGGCCATGTGTATTTTTTTAAATTTCCACTGATGATTTTGCTGCATGGCCGGTGTTGAGAATGACTGCGCAAATTTGCCGGAT AAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE<EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE/AEEEEEEEEAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAEA/EAA<EEEEEEAEA/<AEE XA:i:0 MD:Z:151 NM:i:0 NH:i:2 CC:Z:chr15 CP:i:102519374 HI:i:0

    In the above line, it says the start position of the mate on chr22 is 114359002, however, the size of the chr22 is only 51304566

    Example line 2:
    NB500923:20:H7WCJBGXX:1:23107:14442:20318 323 chr1 11696 0 151M chrUn_GL000249 155257832 0 GTGATTTGGGCTGGGGCCTGGCCATGTGTATTTTTTTAAATTTCCACTGATGATTTTGCTGCATGGCCGGTGTTGAGAATGACTGTGCAAATTTGCCGGATTTCCTTCGCTGTTCCTGCATGTAGTTTAAACGAGATTGCCAGCACCGGGT AAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAEEEEEEEEEEEEEAEEEEEAEEEEEEE<EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAEEA<EEEEEE XA:i:2 MD:Z:85C21T43 NM:i:2 NH:i:8 CC:Z:= CP:i:11696 HI:i:4

    It says the start position of the mate on chrUn_GL000249 is 155257832, however, the total size of chrUn_GL000249 is only 38502.

    Can anyone tell how this could happen? and how to fix the file?

    Thanks,
  • DNAmethylome
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    • Oct 2012
    • 13

    #2
    Can anyone help?

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    • dpryan
      Devon Ryan
      • Jul 2011
      • 3478

      #3
      Looks like this is a bug in the version of tophat2 that you're using. If you're using the most recent version, then please report this to the authors so they can fix it.

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