tophat - r option - single end reads

[adrian]

Hi:

I have GAII data - 36 bp single end reads.

I am using tophat following option

tophat -p 14 btie/indexes/hg18 sample1.fastq -o awb --segment-mismatches 3

Error: you must set the mean inner distance between mates with -r


I get the error forcing me to set -r option. These reads are single-end reads, why tophat wants me to set -r.

can I instead set -r 0?
any help appreciated.

thanks
Adrian

[kreitinger]

Same Issue

I am trying to map 42 bp single reads and have the same error message.

[DZhang]

Hi

Please check if you are using the latest version of tophat. I did one project 2 months ago using Tophat on single-fragment reads and it worked. My actual command was

tophat -p 6 --allow-indels -o $id $ref $id.fq

Hope it helps.

Douglas

https://www.contigexpress.com

[vineeth_s]

For SOLiD reads, you have to put the -Q option in the list of options, and specify the _QV.qual file at the end after the reads file, like so:

tophat -C -Q -G reference.gtf reads_filename.csfasta reads_filename_QV.qual