Question: FastQC form setting and usage
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4.2 years ago by
ginna0
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ginna0 wrote:

What does Contaminant list mean? For an example when I select the settings for the FastQC:Read QC tool there is a drop down box and my reference genome is listed there. Should I select it?

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Jennifer Hillman Jackson25k wrote:

Hello,

The FastQC manual is linked from the tool form, which is the best source for usage details.

However, I can let you know what I have used this for: screening out known artifact from the analysis. For example, if in a public dataset an earlier run of FastQC revealed an overrepresented sequence that was identified as likely being an adaptor, or if the description of the data contains an adaptor. Use a tabular formatted file: column 1 an identifier, column 2 a nucleotide string. The underlying tool may also accept a fasta file, but not in the Galaxy wrapped version, that I know of.

Hopefully this helps, Jen, Galaxy team

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4.2 years ago by
fubar1.1k
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fubar1.1k wrote:

The help text on the tool form is about all you'll find anywhere but an example with some explanation is here: https://github.com/csf-ngs/fastqc/blob/master/Contaminants/contaminant_list.txt

The choices you see in the fastqc tool are the tabular datasetsl from your local history as defined by the tool xml:

 <param name="contaminants" type="data" format="tabular" optional="true" label="Contaminant list" 
           help="tab delimited file with 2 columns: name and sequence.  For example: Illumina Small RNA RT Primer CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGA"/>
  </inputs>

Choosing the reference genome as the contaminant sequences list would probably be a very bad idea :)

 

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