Thank you very much, so what are the unpaired fastq files used for ?
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Hi, I have used Trimmomatic to validate my fastq files, but i have got for outputs , so i wondering which one of them i should use in Tophat or for my RNA analysis ?
Trimmomatic produces four files:
You want to use the paired forward and reverse fastq files as downstream input in your pipeline.
Thank you very much, so what are the unpaired fastq files used for ?
Additional coverage, if you need it. With RNA-seq it may cause bias to remove short-insert reads (since they are more likely to come from short transcripts), which Trimmomatic outputs as unpaired when using the default settings, I believe.
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