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  • Mapping Amplicon Reads to Reference

    Hi all,


    I am wondering how to map paired-end amplicon reads to the reference properly and if I really understand amplicon sequencing itself...

    Correct me if I'm wrong but paired-end reads must originate from the very same amplicon, right? That means the insert size (of untrimmed reads) must be equal to the amplicon size. And it means that the first base of fwd reads must match the amplicon start position, while the last base of rev reads must match the amplicon stop position.

    The question is now how to use this information? Is there a way to tell the mapper (e.g. bwa) which amplicons where used in order to improve mapping?

    The problem is, I see a lot of reads starting at positions which do not correlate with the amplicon start/stop positions which tells me that they are indeed mapped to the wrong position! In the end I have a lot of false positive variants...


    Thanks for any suggestions!

    Sebastian
    Last edited by svos; 04-23-2015, 11:41 PM.

  • #2
    Aligners don't generally care which bases mismatch the reference, so I don't see a good way of forcing an aligner to make the first base much more important than others. Heng Li can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your best bet is to post-filter the reads, and remove those with mismatches in the first 5 bp, if you want to enforce a rule that (for example) the first the first 5 bp must match exactly. I'm not sure that's a good idea, though. Bear in mind that the first few BP of Illumina reads are lower quality than the rest, so some mismatches are expected.

    Also, the first base of read 1 is the leftmost base and the first base of read 2 is the rightmost base (relative to the molecule being sequenced). So it's the first base of read 2 that should match the stop position (reverse-complemented), not the last base.

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    • #3
      Thank you for your suggestion. The point I mentioned is not on how well the bases at 5' or 3' end match (or mismatch) the reference, it is only about WHERE they are mapped.

      Of course I can filter those reads out (and I will as long as I don't have a better solution), but I will lose the information of these reads then...

      In the BAM file, the last base of a rev read is the first base that was read in the sequence (as it was reverse-complemented again )

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