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  • Tophat - reporting only best hit given multi-reads/multi-maps.

    Hello,

    Maybe someone has an answer regarding the issue of multi-reads/multi-maps with Tophat.

    With Bowtie, parameters can be set such that it only reports alignments in the specified stratum range using '-m'. Along with --best-strata I can force Bowtie to report only the best alignment and only if there is only one "best" alignment. (-m1 --best--strata)

    My question is, how can I force Tophat to perform similar behavior? As far as I can tell there is no way to force Tophat to invoke Bowtie with --best-strata options...
    I can get around this by running Bowtie alone before then using Tophat to map the remaining unmapped reads i suppose..
    Tophat would then identify junction spanning reads, but as far as I can see it is only possible to prevent reporting of alignments when a read has more than x valid alignments- via the '-g' param.

    Essentially, when a read maps to more than one location given a certain mismatch threshold, I wish to report the best alignment but only if the best alignment score is unique. This is a way to allocate reads given multi-maps.

    Any thoughts?

  • #2
    I am also looking forward to seeing some advice on this because I think using '-g 1' in Tophat might be too conservative.

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