Question: Filter Bowtie 2 alignement
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2.4 years ago by
Mic70
Australia
Mic70 wrote:

Hi, I read this post (http://biofinysics.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/how-does-bowtie2-assign-mapq-scores.html) which describes on how to filter Bowtie 2 alignment with the following command:

awk '$5 == 3 || $5 == 8 || $5 == 23 || $5 == 24 || $5 == 40 || $5 == 42' file.sam

The idea behind the command is to get "unireads" with decent alignment scores.

How is it possible to convert the above awk command in Galaxy?

Mic

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ADD COMMENTlink modified 2.4 years ago by Devon Ryan1.9k • written 2.4 years ago by Mic70
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2.4 years ago by
Devon Ryan1.9k
Germany
Devon Ryan1.9k wrote:

If you convert your BAM file to SAM ("BAM to SAM" tool) then you can use the "text reformatting (with awk)" tool essentially given that script (sans file.sam).

Have said that, I would strongly encourage you to not do that, since what you're trying to do is rarely if ever useful (you might notice my name in that blog post, so I know a bit about the issue). A generally more useful process is to simply filter by MAPQ, which can be more easily done on the original BAM file.

ADD COMMENTlink written 2.4 years ago by Devon Ryan1.9k

Would you recommend to use MAPQ = 1?

ADD REPLYlink written 2.4 years ago by Mic70

More along the lines of 5 or 10, depending on the application.

ADD REPLYlink written 2.4 years ago by Devon Ryan1.9k

What would you use for SNP discovery and Chip-Seq or do you have a list of MAPQ values are best for a particular applications?

ADD REPLYlink written 2.4 years ago by Mic70

If your variant caller doesn't handle MAPQ scores already then try 5 (you're going to filter variants by quality anyway, so the random low MAPQ alignment here and there won't matter much). For ChIPseq, just mark duplicates and don't bother filtering.

ADD REPLYlink modified 2.4 years ago • written 2.4 years ago by Devon Ryan1.9k

Thank you. Did you mean with "text reformatting (with awk)" this tools from the toolshed 'text_processing'?

ADD REPLYlink written 2.4 years ago by Mic70

Sounds right, yes.

ADD REPLYlink written 2.4 years ago by Devon Ryan1.9k
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