Picard - MakeDuplicates (remove pcr duplicates)

[dmb]

There seems to be only a few options for removing PCR duplicates from Illumina fastq data and/or alignment data. I have use FASTX for (fastx_collapse) for removing duplicates in fastq files but this takes a long time when running against human data of ~10Gb per lane.
The other option I have tried is SAMTOOLS (rmdup) but the documentation admits that it doesn't work well (or at all) with single end data. I have also noticed strange results when using this on my own data sets. (e.g. reads removed that were clearly not duplicates).
The alternative posted on the SAMTOOLS site is to use PICARD. Implementation is straightforward and uses percompiled jar files with well documented options.
I am unfortunately getting a strange Exception thrown when I run the MakeDuplicates jar file. It seems it is recognizing something in my data that wants to call it paired end data. However, my data are single end reads.
Does anyone have any experience with using this command in picard? Here is my call and the error being thrown.

Call:

 java -jar /home/bornmand/tools/picard/MarkDuplicates.jar INPUT=101119_first4lanes_bwa.bam OUTPUT=101119_first4lanes_bwaNoD
up.bam METRICS_FILE=101119_first4lanes_duplicateINFO.txt REMOVE_DUPLICATES=true ASSUME_SORTED=true

Error:

INFO    2011-03-16 08:09:46     MarkDuplicates  Start of doWork freeMemory: 62375408; totalMemory: 63111168; maxMemory: 935854080
INFO    2011-03-16 08:09:46     MarkDuplicates  Reading input file and constructing read end information.
INFO    2011-03-16 08:09:46     MarkDuplicates  Will retain up to 3713706 data points before spilling to disk.
INFO    2011-03-16 08:09:46     MarkDuplicates  Assuming input is coordinate sorted.
[Wed Mar 16 08:09:46 EDT 2011] net.sf.picard.sam.MarkDuplicates done.
Runtime.totalMemory()=92864512
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: SAM validation error: ERROR: Record 1, Read name 4:20:14143:2730:Y, MRNM should not be set for unpaired read.
        at net.sf.samtools.SAMUtils.processValidationErrors(SAMUtils.java:334)
        at net.sf.samtools.BAMFileReader$BAMFileIterator.advance(BAMFileReader.java:449)
        at net.sf.samtools.BAMFileReader$BAMFileIterator.<init>(BAMFileReader.java:413)
        at net.sf.samtools.BAMFileReader$BAMFileIterator.<init>(BAMFileReader.java:403)
        at net.sf.samtools.BAMFileReader.getIterator(BAMFileReader.java:206)
        at net.sf.samtools.SAMFileReader.iterator(SAMFileReader.java:288)
        at net.sf.samtools.SAMFileReader.iterator(SAMFileReader.java:37)
        at net.sf.picard.sam.MarkDuplicates.buildSortedReadEndLists(MarkDuplicates.java:271)
        at net.sf.picard.sam.MarkDuplicates.doWork(MarkDuplicates.java:113)
        at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMain(CommandLineProgram.java:156)
        at net.sf.picard.sam.MarkDuplicates.main(MarkDuplicates.java:97)

It seems that it runs okay but then encounters a problem.
Thanks.
Dan

[cormicp]

Hi Dan

Try adding "VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=LENIENT" to the end of your command line and see if this solves the problem.

Often incorrect flags can be set in the output of an aligner which downstream tools can take exception to.

Alternatively you can edit your BAM file to correct the record which is throwing up this error.

Hope this helps.

[dmb]

That looks like it is working! Thanks a lot.
I did see that flag in the source code but I used "null" instead which was an invalid argument.
My new BAM file is being written to disk now. I will check results and hopefully it makes sense this time.
Thanks again.