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What does it mean that: 100% of my alignment are discordant?

Question: After the alignment with tophat, the summary shows:

Left reads:
          Input     :  12512968
           Mapped   :  12141005 (97.0% of input)
            of these:   2791920 (23.0%) have multiple alignments (81788 have >20)
Right reads:
          Input     :  12512968
           Mapped   :  12141005 (97.0% of input)
            of these:   2791920 (23.0%) have multiple alignments (81788 have >20)
97.0% overall read mapping rate.

Aligned pairs:  12141005
     of these:   2791920 (23.0%) have multiple alignments
                12140903 (100.0%) are discordant alignments

0.0% concordant pair alignment rate.

What does it mean? how can I fix this?

tophat alignment rna-seq

From what I knew, it means either the reads mapped are not in the correct orientation or the reads are not present in the correct insert size range.

Did again the same run using raw reads without cat merge the fastq files and become this:

Left reads:
          Input     :   6256005
           Mapped   :   6069889 (97.0% of input)
            of these:   1238707 (20.4%) have multiple alignments (2497 have >20)
Right reads:
          Input     :   6256005
           Mapped   :   6061627 (96.9% of input)
            of these:   1236605 (20.4%) have multiple alignments (2485 have >20)
97.0% overall read mapping rate.

Aligned pairs:   5942976
     of these:   1216361 (20.5%) have multiple alignments
                   43092 ( 0.7%) are discordant alignments
94.3% concordant pair alignment rate.

What kind of library are you using - orientation, as @Prakki suggested, is the most likely problem.

What do you mean by "cat" the fastq?

merging different fastq files from different lanes from the illumina hiseq

I edited this

Okay, so did something go wrong during merging, do you know what caused the problem or are you still wondering? If so, what command did you use to merge the files?

If you paste your commands someone can point what went wrong.

Thank you But I already fixed this issue. I think will run the files and merge the bam of the alignment instead of merging the fastq files before.

Hi,

Please let me know how you solved it?

I merged - SORTMERNA then unmarked datafile Then trimmed using trimmomatic. Used the Paired output from trimmomatic for alignment. The alignment summary gives 100% discordant for all the samples. Please help!!!

Thanks! Mamta

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Did you reverse-completed one file?

I would say: you mapped you reads using

aligner REF.fa R2.fq.gz R1.fq.gz

instead of

aligner REF.fa R1.fq.gz R2.fq.gz

I think I did that -.-

That shouldn't cause a problem. The relative order of the R1 and R2 files does not matter. I think that perhaps he merged the reads in different orders, though, like this:

cat R1_L1.fq R1_L2.fq > R1.fq
cat R2_L2.fq R2_L1.fq > R2.fq

...or something along those lines.

ah yes, you're right. I thought I had this problem one day, I was wrong.

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