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  • Help with bowtie2 for a beginner (windows)

    Hello,
    As I am completely new to the field of Next Generation Sequencing and I have absolutely no background in computers, I need your help in figuring out the mistakes that I am doing while conducting sequence alignment. I am using bowtie2. The command that I have entered is:

    ./bowtie2 -p 8 -x hg19 NA11881.fastq > Experiment1.sam

    And the result that I get is:

    0 reads
    0.00% overall alignment rate

    I know I am going wrong somewhere. Please help! Any links to help me solve this problem will be appreciated.

    Thank you!

  • #2
    Try specifying '-U' in front of your fastq file

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    • #3
      Still the same result.

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      • #4
        Try also putting '-q' option to specify it is fastq input.
        If that still fails, what is the output from

        Code:
        head NA11881.fastq
        some check questions:

        Can you post any errors or warning you are getting?
        Do you have all the index files in the same directory?
        Do you have 8 cpus on your computer?

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        • #5
          I am not getting any output for "head NA11881.fastq"

          I am not getting any errors or warnings

          I have all the index files in the same directory

          yes. I have 8 cpus on my computer

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          • #6
            Well there's your problem - your fastq file is empty.
            The head command gets the first 10 lines from your file.

            what do you get with:
            Code:
            ls -lh NA11881.fastq

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            • #7
              On entering:
              ls -lh NA11881.fastq

              i get

              -rw-r--r-- 1 bansalr students 0 Oct 16 14:59 NA11881.fastq

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              • #8
                You are right. The file is empty. Let me transfer it again and re-try aligning it. I will get back to you regarding the success of the same. Thanks for your help!

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                • #9
                  your file size is zero - between 'students' and 'Oct' .

                  You need to check where and how your downloaded your file. It should not be empty. Perhaps you can get it again from your source. Redo the above commands once you are sure you have reads to align. good luck.

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                  • #10
                    Hi!
                    I transferred the downloaded the file again and redid the commands and it worked! Thank you so much for your help!

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