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  • kapoormanav
    Junior Member
    • Jul 2010
    • 9

    #1

    New to next gen: read format help

    Hi

    I am new to next gen sequencing. I got my exome capture reads and I aligned it to ref genome using maq. Now someone told me that my reads are not in the sanger fastq format and when I tried to convert it with patch for maq the new file was empty.

    Here is the example how my reads look like

    HWI-EAS440_0346:6:1:1488:13263#0/1:ACCTCTAACAGCCTCATCGTCAGCTACATCTGGTTATATGCACTT
    TATTTCAGCCATATCAACTTATTTAAGGCTT:Z]RXZJQKKZ_]Y]]Ja\[[]T`^Y\VHSV]^JZZ\_\``NYTVYYZ^
    SNT_^^BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
    HWI-EAS440_0346:6:1:1524:7965#0/1:CTGTTTGTTGTTTAACAAGCCTACCAGGTGATTCTGACTCACATTA
    TAGTTTCAGCACAACTTTAAATTCTTTCTT:]]R_LUJTXH\]_aU\bb^bb`acaccbcc`\YaTc^cccccccc]]``
    ^Za_U\KL[WZ]U_LLTJT`K__aSZ\
    HWI-EAS440_0346:6:1:1526:8854#0/1:GGAGCATGGGAACAAATGTTCTTGAAATATTCTGCCTATACTTTCA
    AGTGGGATATGGATAATCACTGGCCAAGGG:][`T]ZZZU_b^bLLYY\L\aUUUUKZTT`LT]Yaa^cYY_YU_U``bL
    `HWTRSZ__MY[HTYZZ[\Y^\L_`^`


    Then I used one perl script which I got online and converted my reads to this format

    @HWI-EAS440_0333_8_1_1016_4512#0/2
    TTAGAGACTCCTGGATGCCCTGAGGGAGCGGCTCCAGAGCTTGCCTTCCCTCCTCTGTTTTCACAACGGTCCAGCG
    +HWI-EAS440_0333_8_1_1016_4512#0/2
    dd^e^d^dcd`ddadeeeeeeaYea`dccd\ddTdddYdbddd\d^ca_^L^`V^dYa`b`bc\Yb\Yba`TT`BB

    and then another person from my lab told me that these quality scores do not match with sanger quality scores. Now I am totally confused that what I have? As no one else from lab has done next gen sequencing before so there is noone to help, and I am new to programming and sequencing I am also confused. Can someone help me regarding this?

    Manav
  • jmartin127
    Member
    • Mar 2010
    • 15

    #2
    This may help to clarify things for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format.

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    • kapoormanav
      Junior Member
      • Jul 2010
      • 9

      #3
      Thanks for the reply. Its helpful..

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