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  • ronaldrcutler
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    • May 2016
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    HTSeq-count: Warning: x reads with missing mate encountered.

    As I am running through an RNA-Seq pipeline using Hisat2 for alignment and HTSeq-count for counting reads in features I notice this warning at the bottom of the log file
    Code:
    Warning: 284233 reads with missing mate encountered.
    Looking at the stats of the bam file that gave the HTSeq-count warnings using "samtools flagstat"
    Code:
    76075665 + 0 in total (QC-passed reads + QC-failed reads)
    1565341 + 0 secondary
    0 + 0 supplementary
    0 + 0 duplicates
    71435955 + 0 mapped (93.90% : N/A)
    74510324 + 0 paired in sequencing
    37255162 + 0 read1
    37255162 + 0 read2
    64430312 + 0 properly paired (86.47% : N/A)
    67187398 + 0 with itself and mate mapped
    2683216 + 0 singletons (3.60% : N/A)
    2452092 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr
    2095660 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr (mapQ>=5)
    Now for the previous RNA-Seq pipeline on the same data, with the only difference being Tophat2 for alignment, I do not see this warning in the HTSeq-count log files.

    Looking at the stats of the tophat2 aligned bam file that came from the same sample above.
    Code:
    85046681 + 0 in total (QC-passed reads + QC-failed reads)
    18181171 + 0 secondary
    0 + 0 supplementary
    0 + 0 duplicates
    85046681 + 0 mapped (100.00% : N/A)
    66865510 + 0 paired in sequencing
    34237825 + 0 read1
    32627685 + 0 read2
    16861294 + 0 properly paired (25.22% : N/A)
    61704000 + 0 with itself and mate mapped
    5161510 + 0 singletons (7.72% : N/A)
    4055974 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr
    1899988 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr (mapQ>=5)

    I know this HTSeq-count warning is characteristic of unsorted bam files as I have run into that problem in the past. However, I made sure that I was still getting this warning even with name sorted files and making sure HTSeq-count was expecting name sorted files! I can see that in the hisat2 alignment, I did not have 100% mapping, which may explain the error - Why are these different? Both aligners were run with default settings.

    Moreover, I am wondering how/why this warning occurs as I know HTSeq-count needs only paired or single alignments and cannot deal with both at the same time. Otherwise that is characteristic of this error message:
    Code:
    'pair_alignments' needs a sequence of paired-end alignments
    Although I see in both the Tophat2 and Hisat2 stats that there are singletons.

    TLDR; Why isn't there 100% mapping in Hisat2 output alignments when there is 100% mapping for tophat2 output alignments using default settings for each?
    Last edited by ronaldrcutler; 12-24-2016, 08:04 AM.

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