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    Counting reads in miRNA experiment

    Dear all,
    in our lab we are running an Illumina small RNA protocol on human sample to collect miRNA sequence and I am running the bioinformatics part.
    During library preparation we are using kit that are unstreanded. After sequencing (Illumina single read) for each sample I got the majority of reads with 5-3' orientation (about 90% of the reads) and "few" reads with orientation 3'-5'.
    I have cleaned my raw data removing low quality reads, illumina adapter, reads longer than 27 nt and reads shorter than 17 nt after adapter removing. I aligned to human genome and now I need to assign and count my reads to microRNA. For doing that I am using FeatureCounts (suite subread) and I am using the gff file downloaded from mirBase. I have a doubt in summarizing the reads: do I need to count the reads independently from their orientation? Do I need to sum the reads with orientation 5'-3' and 3'-5'? Or do I only need to count the reads with 5'-3' orientation?
    Many thanks,
    Sara

  • #2
    Hi,
    If the protocol you follow keeps no strand information of RNA ("unstreanded") then I think you should consider no orientation for counting; sum all 5'-3' and 3'-5' reads for the same features. I haven't work with FeatureCounts, with htseq-count (http://www-huber.embl.de/users/ander...doc/count.html) it would be with the --stranded=no option.
    Last edited by cascoamarillo; 01-15-2016, 12:37 PM.

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    • #3
      Hi,
      many thanks for your suggestion.
      Best,
      Sara

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      • #4
        With featureCounts, the default setting is unstranded read counting (-s 0).

        If you performed unstranded sequencing, the percentage of sense strand reads should be similar to that of antisense strand reads. You may need to check if your sequencing was actually stranded.

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