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  • Bowtie giving opposite results

    Hi all,

    I am using the bowtie program to run alignments on a set of mate pair data (2 fastq files) and have run into a problem. What I have found is that if I run bowtie with the regular fastq files 'as is' with the --rf (MP orientation) option, then the results I get are "backwards", in the sense that reads with large insert sizes of 1000+ are being given bitFlags that indicate paired end orientation, and reads with smaller insert sizes of around 180 are being given mate pair orientation when they are clearly paired end. I also ran bowtie with the reverse complemented fastq files (accomplished this using a python script that reverse complemented the bases, and reversed the quality scores), and this time, bowtie2 gave bitFlags that made sense with the data, i.e. expected mate pair reads were being given bitFlag definitions of mate pair orientation. I am not sure if this is expected, and I should be giving bowtie the reverse complements of these fastq files, or if I have made a mistake in another option? I did specify '--rf' to indicate the data was MP, and gave -I and -X options.

    /home/rcorbett/aligners/bowtie2/bowtie2-2.0.0-beta7/bowtie2 -p 8 --rf -I 2000 -X 2500 -x /home/rcorbett/aligners/bowtie2/bowtie2-2.0.0-beta7/hg19a -1 /projects/rcook/3_prj/bwa/30NE8AAXX_3_1_export_f1b6.fastq -2 /projects/rcook/3_prj/bwa/30NE8AAXX_3_2_export_f1b6.fastq -S /projects/rcook/3_prj/bowtie.align.output.rf.min2000.max2500.sam
    Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read and respond to this post!

    Riley
    Last edited by rcook34; 11-08-2012, 10:43 AM.

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    I found out it was a bad set of data. Used bowtie2 to map a completely different set of mate pair data and it worked as it should. Seriously though, a few weeks and 132 views and no one responds? awesome...

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