Hello,
I have Solid paired end reads (F3, F5) from DNA-Seq I want to map on a reference genome (yeast). I used Bowtie with the -C parameter and then I tried different values for the -v but I can't map more than 51% of the reads.
I would like to know if somebody uses other alignment tools with colorspace data that could perform better than bowtie.
Thanks a lot
1 answer
That's solid data for you. Though 50% is pretty low. How long are the reads?
Back when I was subject to such horrible things, I did a comparison of various aligners on colorspace data https://github.com/brentp/bowfast/tree/master/aligner-compare
Bowtie should work well with the options here: https://github.com/brentp/bowfast/blob/master/aligner-compare/run-bowtie.sh
You can see that other aligners do better but they are more of a pain to deal with.
- bfast has huuuuge indexes
- shrimp requires splitting the data (but you can follow my run-shrimp.sh script
- novoalign isnt' free
sympathies.
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