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  • 3' Adapter Trimming

    Hi everyone,

    I am using Maq for alignments and have found the 3' adapter trimming to be very informative about my overall run/sample prep quality. However, I am not clear about how this actually is working and have a couple questions...

    For instance, I have in one lane 13,145,392 quality filtered reads. Using the adapter trimming option I get 10,270,661 possible reads with adapter contamination, and a total of 2,949,120 paired reads mapping (3,404,692 total mapped). So this mapping number is greater than the number of reads NOT containing adapters 13,145,392-10,270,661 = 2,874,731.

    So, does Maq simply trim off any adapter and continue with alignment if the read is of sufficient length? Am I reading this correctly?

    Next, I have aligned the same exact reads to 3 different regions and for each I get 3 different counts for possible adapter contamination with everything else being equal. For the lane I mentioned above, I get a) 10,270,661 b) 10,473,317 and c) 10,299,171 counts for adapters but again these are the exact same reads, just a different region for alignment -- not huge differences, but differences nonetheless

    I whipped together a super simple perl script to count 3' adapters in my FASTQs and get nowhere near the same number..

    Code:
    $adapt = GATCGGAA;
    $count = 0;
    
    while (<>) {
      $line = $_;
      chomp $line;
      if ($line =~ m/^$adapt/) {
        $count++;
      }
    }
    print "\nThere are $count sequences with adapter!\n\n";
    Again, super simple, but with this for the aforementioned lane I get 6,615,038 reads containing adapter....

    Does anybody have some insight to any of these issues? Thanks everyone!

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