Has anyone noticed issues with quality scores on amplicon runs since the new version of bcl2fastq came out? I've had a number of runs be questionable since late Oct, but I also changed machines at the same time. Trying to figure out if I need to adjust wetlab conditions to new machine or if it's related to the software update.
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Microbial ecologist, running a sequencing core. I have lots of strong opinions on how to survey communities, pretty sure some are even correct. -
bcl2fastq v.2.x uses binned Q-scores. I assume you are referring to that here as "issues"? Have you seen this paper?
@Brian has a way to re-calibrate those using BBMap. There should be a post on here that describes how to do that. -
The beginning of R2 qscores are really low. This last run, R1 looks great with ~10% phiX aligned. R2 is horrible, <1% phiX aligned. I'm not sure how this would be software related but the thumbnails look fine-the machine didn't lose focus, clusters are there.
oh hadn't seen that paper, thanks. Haven't used bbmap but know it's on one of our clustersMicrobial ecologist, running a sequencing core. I have lots of strong opinions on how to survey communities, pretty sure some are even correct.Comment
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The qscore profiles look similar to what I was seeing at the beginning of the year. But the machine that I'm currently using is the one that actually lead us to blame the TCM of my old machine
Microbial ecologist, running a sequencing core. I have lots of strong opinions on how to survey communities, pretty sure some are even correct.Comment
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Are you sure the issue is with bcl2fastq? QScores are assigned (binned or not) by RTA. bcl2fastq merely extracts the scores already stored in the BCL file by RTA.Originally posted by thermophile View PostComment
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not sure of anything. so maybe rerunning older version of bcl2fastq isn't going to change anything?Microbial ecologist, running a sequencing core. I have lots of strong opinions on how to survey communities, pretty sure some are even correct.Comment
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talked to tech support, bcl2fastq is very unlikely to be the issue.Microbial ecologist, running a sequencing core. I have lots of strong opinions on how to survey communities, pretty sure some are even correct.Comment
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