I have whole genome data in paired end fastq files. Before going for its alignment, I checked some of the samples for quality using FastQC but I'm getting strange results as seen in the attachments. Shall I move ahead with such data or need to trim these sequences or discard the data? I've majority of samples like this!
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Hi,
I would suggest you trim the leftmost part of the sequences. Given that you still have some high quality bases at the 3'-end, it will be good to set a Q-score threshold during trimming. By doing this you will end up with reads of varying lengths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz93ReOv87Y
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Your Kmer plot suggests that a reasonable proportion of your library contains very short inserts (we can't really tell what proportion from the graph - you'd need the accompanying table for that).
Is it possible you've just made a library with extremely short inserts and that this is why the quality is dropping so quickly? Given the adapter contamination you probably need to adapter trim your data anyway for it to be of any use, so you might as well quality trim while you're at it.
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