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Hi, I found the 454Isotigs.fna file contains many sequences that are 100% identical but with different lengths (i.e. one sequence contains another shorter one). Isn't this supposed not to happen. I mean they should be assembled as one? Thanks ...
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Last edited by bioben; 09-30-2010, 07:49 PM. -
Forgot to say that I am trying to assemble ~10 million 454 ESTs and ~1 million sanger ESTs. I also tried CAP3 and TGICL. They all output identical sequences more or less in the contigs and singlets files. -
This is the gsAssembler (Newbler) saying that it believes there are two isoforms of the gene, one being shorter than the other. Is it correct?? That's where your biological expertise comes in. Personally I would bet a large number of donuts that it's not correct. gsAssembler seems to be overzealous in finding isoforms.Originally posted by bioben View PostComment
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Thanks, kmcarr. I think you are right. Probably they are splicing variants.
Then how about singlets? I tried to find them back by parsing the 454ReadStatus.txt file. The resulting singlets file also contains many identical reads. To me, they are supposed to be assembled as one and show up in the isotigs file. Do people usually care about singlets or not? Thanks ...Comment
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I suspect that the singletons are not assembled together simply because they are identical and thus considered to be technical duplicates. It is hard to have a contig made up of exactly one identical read.Originally posted by bioben View Post
If the reads overlap then they could be assembled. Unfortunately do not know of a 454 file that describes which reads are true singletons and which are duplicate singletons.
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Hi bioben
I think you should read this thread: Detection of alternative splicing events from 454 output
it should answer a lot of questionsComment
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I don't think so. Singletons are read from region poorly covered by emPCR. also, if there were reads having an overlap but when they were trimmed or there were some sequencing errors, newbler did not find the overlap. Set these before you start assembly in 454AssemblyProject.xml:Originally posted by westerman View PostI suspect that the singletons are not assembled together simply because they are identical and thus considered to be technical duplicates. It is hard to have a contig made up of exactly one identical read. If the reads overlap then they could be assembled. Unfortunately do not know of a 454 file that describes which reads are true singletons and which are duplicate singletons.
<minimumReadLength>45</minimumReadLength>
<overlapSeedStep>1</overlapSeedStep>
<overlapMinMatchLength>60</overlapMinMatchLength>
<overlapMinMatchIdentity>96</overlapMinMatchIdentity>
<ripMode>true</ripMode>
Make a new cDNA assembly, do not re-run it from the current assembly directory because in my opinion newbler does not re-compute the overlaps and hence not all changes will kick in. With these settings I got 50% more assembled contigs than with loose defaults!Comment
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