merge paired end

[NicoBxl]

Hi,

How can I merge two paired end fastq (R and L) to give a single fastq file ?



Thanks,

N.

[NicoBxl]

For example here's two paired reads :

@HWUSI-EAS529:41:FC62YHFAAXX:8:1:7969:1330 1:N:0:GCCAAT
CTACGAAAGGGCACTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCAGTCACGCCAATATCTCGTATGCCGTCTTCTGCT
+
IIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIIHHIIIHGIIIIEIIIIIIEIIHIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIBHIHIIHGIGIEGHHEGEEH

@HWUSI-EAS529:41:FC62YHFAAXX:8:1:7969:1330 2:N:0:GCCAAT
AGTGCCCTTTCGTAGGATCGTCGGACTGTAGAACTCTGAACGTGTAGATCTCGGTGGTCGCCGTATCATTAAAAAA
+
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDHIGIIIHIIIGHGIIIIIIIHHIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIHIIGIIIIHI

I find the adapter in the first one :

EMBOSS_001         1 CTACGAAAGGGCACTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCAGTCACGC     50
                                    |||||||||||||||||||||              
EMBOSS_001         1 ---------------TGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGG--------------     21

EMBOSS_001        51 CAATATCTCGTATGCCGTCTTCTGCT     76
                                               
EMBOSS_001        22 --------------------------     21

but not in the second one ...

[Keritiger]

The velvet assembler comes with shuffleSequences perl scripts that do that will do that for fasta or fastq files.