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  • Low mapping rate for smallRNA Seq

    Hello,

    I am trying to align small/miRNAs to a fully assembled bacterial genome, and have been only getting 7% of reads to align. Of those 7%, almost all of them are only 10nt in length (or shorter). The size distribution has a peak around 30nt in length, and then slowly tails to 150. Most of the quality scores are 34 or higher.

    Can anyone provide any suggestions? I have tried Bowtie2 default settings, local alignment, and endtoend with a 4nt seed. All have given me the same problem.

    Thank you!

  • #2
    It is important to note that we did not do rRNA depletion - it was not available for our bacterium. I have also tried both local and endtoend alignment with Bowtie2 and I continually get a low percentage. The samples were treated with a 5' de-phosphorylase to look for RNA processing, although that should not explain the extreme lack of mapping %.

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    • #3
      You should try a non-gapped aligner like bowtie v.1 for this. Be sure to remove/trim any kit specific adapters/illumina adapters before alignment.

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