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  • Navy1991
    Junior Member
    • Jun 2014
    • 6

    Compare Bowtie2 and BWA summary

    How to compare bowtie and bwa summary?

    Here is the output of bowtie2:
    28115453 reads; of these:
    28115453 (100.00%) were paired; of these:
    9177458 (32.64%) aligned concordantly 0 times
    15185809 (54.01%) aligned concordantly exactly 1 time
    3752186 (13.35%) aligned concordantly >1 times
    ----
    9177458 pairs aligned concordantly 0 times; of these:
    2358270 (25.70%) aligned discordantly 1 time
    ----
    6819188 pairs aligned 0 times concordantly or discordantly; of these:
    13638376 mates make up the pairs; of these:
    9978644 (73.17%) aligned 0 times
    1757628 (12.89%) aligned exactly 1 time
    1902104 (13.95%) aligned >1 times
    82.25% overall alignment rate

    How to compare the information between BWA and bowtie2 for the same file.
    I know that

    For multiples hits with BWA, you have XT:A:R flag (R for multiple, you can have XT:A:U for unique reads. For paired-end reads, you might also consider XT:A:M (one-mate recovered) which means that one of the pairs is uniquely mapped and the other isn't)
    For Bowtie2, XS:i flag determined if alignment is unique or not. Only present if the SAM record is for an aligned read and more than one alignment was found for the read.

    I am using paired end sequencing. How to compare and verify if the summary from both bowtie2 and bwa is same
  • dpryan
    Devon Ryan
    • Jul 2011
    • 3478

    #2
    Please forgot the entire concept of a "unique alignment"; it's misleading.

    A proper comparison would be to look at concordance/discordance as a function of MAPQ. See this thread, starting around comment 8 for an example. You could also look at how often paired reads were aligned as singletons ("mate-recovered" in bwa parlance) in one aligner and not the other.

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