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  • ojham
    Member
    • May 2012
    • 16

    #1

    Bowtie Output

    Hello everyone,
    Is it possible to get fastq file as an output file of bowtie tool ?

    Thanks.
  • dpryan
    Devon Ryan
    • Jul 2011
    • 3478

    #2
    Normally you would feed bowtie a fastq file as input. Presumably you want a fastq file of the unmapped reads or something like that. Just use the -un flag and supply a file name. If, for some reason, you want the aligned reads (or all of them for that matter) from a SAM file in fastq format, you could just write a trivial shell script to do so (presumably this is also true of the original bowtie output format, which I've never used).

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    • ojham
      Member
      • May 2012
      • 16

      #3
      Hi, thank you for the response. I need unmapped reads from bowtie output. Can you please, explain using of -un flag in detail. Thank You.
      Last edited by ojham; 07-03-2012, 11:27 AM.

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      • dpryan
        Devon Ryan
        • Jul 2011
        • 3478

        #4
        Have you looked at the appropriate section of the manual page for bowtie1 or bowtie2 (depending on the version you're using)? BTW, you may want --un-conc instead, depending on your reads.

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