Hello,
Thanks very much for your responses! (Sorry for the delay in replying). It seems that yes, the data was generated on a HiSeq, probably with a v3 flow cell, and thus it could be the Bottom Middle Swath problem occurring. I hadn't heard of it before, nor had the people doing the sequencing, as far as I'm aware.
However, in regards to my second question, it doesn't seem to effect assembly, or rather it has still been possible to assemble the data, I'm not sure how affected it has been. We're waiting for other analyses from the same machine, so it will be interesting to compare the quality info for these analysis.
Thanks again!
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Kmcarr's suggestion above is probably right, but we've seen a couple of other things cause similar profiles in the past. You might have a transient problem with the flowcell (bubbles stuck in the lane for example), which then later cleared. We've also seen loss of quality where we hit a fixed biased position in the data. For example if base 5 was a T in every read then the qualities for that position would suddenly fall (and the N count would rise), but things would return to normal in later cycles.
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Originally posted by mittymat View PostHello,
I'm very new to analysing next gen data, and I was hoping someone might be able to help me interpret a failed diagnostic plot I've just obtained in FastQC.
I was wondering if anyone had come across anything similar to the per base score quality read I just got in FastQC (see attached picture)? It doesn't look anything like the other 'failed' example plots, and I'm at a bit of a loss as to why base 11 in particular is so poor... is this indicative of contamination/sequencing reaction failure/short sequences?
Secondly, is it actually possible to assemble such 'failed' data? And is there anything I should specifically be doing in terms of assembly/quality filtering/trimming? I'd be very grateful of any suggestions!
This is single end, ancient DNA sequence data, and this is the plot for all the sequences with the correct tag sequence.
Many thanks for your help.
No as to whether you can use these reads the answer is, "That depends." What fraction of your total does this lane represent? What is your experimental objective (e.g. de novo assembly, SNP detection, etc.)?
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Per Base Quality scores in FastQC
Hello,
I'm very new to analysing next gen data, and I was hoping someone might be able to help me interpret a failed diagnostic plot I've just obtained in FastQC.
I was wondering if anyone had come across anything similar to the per base score quality read I just got in FastQC (see attached picture)? It doesn't look anything like the other 'failed' example plots, and I'm at a bit of a loss as to why base 11 in particular is so poor... is this indicative of contamination/sequencing reaction failure/short sequences?
Secondly, is it actually possible to assemble such 'failed' data? And is there anything I should specifically be doing in terms of assembly/quality filtering/trimming? I'd be very grateful of any suggestions!
This is single end, ancient DNA sequence data, and this is the plot for all the sequences with the correct tag sequence.
Many thanks for your help.
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