Question: (Closed) Problem with Percent duplication on MARK DUPLICATES
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4 months ago by
julieta10
julieta10 wrote:

Hello. I have a Fastq file with 30,000 reads. When I analyze them with Fastqc the level of duplicates goes very high. Then I trim the readings to eliminate low quality bases and the levels of duplicates drop to normal levels. I suppose this will be because when I change the length of the readings the program doesn't consider them as duplicates. Then I map the readings with Bowtie2 and I pass the BAM file to MarkDuplicates. Almost all the sequences are mapped but PERCENT DUPLICATION go back up to 80%. How can this be? Thank you.

ADD COMMENTlink modified 4 months ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson25k • written 4 months ago by julieta10

Hello joseludenia!

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PS: Please see the original reply. Plus, I think you have the answer in this question. FastQC is not finding read-level duplicates. Once mapped, optical duplicates are revealed.
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