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  • thedamian
    Member
    • Feb 2012
    • 50

    #1

    tophat2 reads count

    Hi all,

    I have two .fastq files of Illumina pair-end data (reads1.fastq & reads1.fastq).
    All files together have 28803268 reads.

    The output of Tophat2 are accepted_hits.bam and unmappted.bam.
    Counting mapped and unmapped reads gives 34968712 reads.

    samtools view -c -F 4 accepted_hits.bam # = 25839522
    samtools view -c -f 4 unmapped.bam # = 9129190

    25839522 + 9129190 = 34968712
    34968712 != 28803268

    Can you explain me why Tophat2 outputs more reads than are in input?
  • dpryan
    Devon Ryan
    • Jul 2011
    • 3478

    #2
    Multiple mappings, fusion mapping (if you enabled that), etc...

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