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  • BWA insert size distribution too large

    I'm trying to align pe reads to our reference genome (Tribolium), which has a couple thousand unmapped contigs. The reference has 10 chromosomes , each around 10 - 30 Mb in size, while the rest of the contigs are around 5kb in size.

    I ran this command on the reference with unknown contigs:
    bwa mem -k 5 -t 10 -Ma Ref.fa reads_1.fastq reads_2.fastq > map.sam

    [M::main_mem] read 1164592 sequences (100000019 bp)...
    [M::mem_pestat] # candidate unique pairs for (FF, FR, RF, RR): (23, 23, 12, 19)
    [M::mem_pestat] analyzing insert size distribution for orientation FF...
    [M::mem_pestat] (25, 50, 75) percentile: (2763, 6434, 8256)
    [M::mem_pestat] low and high boundaries for computing mean and std.dev: (1, 19242)
    [M::mem_pestat] mean and std.dev: (5558.52, 3049.04)
    [M::mem_pestat] low and high boundaries for proper pairs: (1, 24735)
    and without the unknown contains:
    bwa mem -k 5 -t 10 -Ma Ref_noUnknown.fa reads_1.fastq reads_2.fastq > map_noUnknown.sam

    [M::main_mem] read 1164592 sequences (100000019 bp)...
    [M::mem_pestat] # candidate unique pairs for (FF, FR, RF, RR): (64, 83, 49, 61)
    [M::mem_pestat] analyzing insert size distribution for orientation FF...
    [M::mem_pestat] (25, 50, 75) percentile: (69, 198, 546)
    [M::mem_pestat] low and high boundaries for computing mean and std.dev: (1, 1500)
    [M::mem_pestat] mean and std.dev: (244.98, 238.31)
    [M::mem_pestat] low and high boundaries for proper pairs: (1, 1977)
    Why is the insert size distribution different between these alignments? How can the insert size distribution be so large for the alignment that contains 2000+ contigs?

  • #2
    Problem solved.

    I ran fastq_quality_trimmer on my raw reads, and the output PE files did not match up, causing large inferred insert sizes.

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