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  • transcriptome_index Bowtie2 Index

    Dear all,

    As far as understand Tophat2 creates an transcriptome_index which also includes Bowtie2 Index files using GTF and the genome file. Then why do we need to supply Bowtie2 Index to create transcriptome index for the first time.

    I tried to create transcriptome index without supplying bowtie2 index files and it gave following error.

    tophat2 -G ../data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.75.gtf --transcriptome-index ./transcriptome_index/ ../data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.75.dna.primary_assembly.fa

    [2015-06-30 12:25:22] Building transcriptome files with TopHat v2.0.13
    -----------------------------------------------
    [2015-06-30 12:25:22] Checking for Bowtie
    Bowtie version: 2.2.4.0
    [2015-06-30 12:25:24] Checking for Bowtie index files (genome)..
    Error: Could not find Bowtie 2 index files (../data/Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.75.dna.primary_assembly.fa.*.bt2)



    However, after that I created bowtie2 index files and ran same process and no error was produced.

  • #2
    Tophat2 uses the entire human genome index files and then creates a "transcriptome-only" subset using information in the GTF file. You only need to do this once, as you discovered.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by GenoMax View Post
      Tophat2 uses the entire human genome index files and then creates a "transcriptome-only" subset using information in the GTF file. You only need to do this once, as you discovered.

      so this will be the workflow:

      1) generate whole genome index using bowtie2
      Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.75.dna.primary_assembly.fa
      Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.75.gtf


      2) the using tophat 2 to create a "transcriptome-only" subset using the whole genome index flie created in step 1

      3) point the tophat 2 to the directory containing "transcriptome-only" subset using

      --transcriptome-index <directory containing "transcriptome-only" subset>

      for subsequent runs

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      • #4
        That is correct. When you are using --transcriptome-only option consider additional options (e.g. -T) that become relevant (scroll down to find the --transcriptome-only option section): https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/tophat/manual.shtml#toph.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by GenoMax View Post
          That is correct. When you are using --transcriptome-only option consider additional options (e.g. -T) that become relevant (scroll down to find the --transcriptome-only option section): https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/tophat/manual.shtml#toph.
          If i understood correctly, when we use the --transcriptome-index without -T then the reads will be first mapped to the transcriptome-index and the reads which fail to match will be mapped to genome (just like using only -G option)

          on the other hand if i use -T then mapping will happen only with transcriptome and report only those mappings as genomic mappings.

          if i want to map to genome only then use of -G and -T should be avoided.

          Also as far i have read and understood mapping to both transcriptome and genome will be an ideal approach i.e. use of -T should be avoided. Am I right?

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