Hi people,

I have being working on a script for removing mtdna reads from ddrad dataset. However, the only mtdna genome available is from a species of another family (too far?). I don`t know if it is because of that, but the mitochondria_stat says nothing. But maybe you could see some errors in my script.

1. build index for mitochondria genome

bwa index xenopus_tropicalis_mt.fasta

1. align reads to mitochondria

bwa mem xenopus_tropicalis_mt.fasta lib1_index04_TGACCA_R1.fastq.gz > reads_lib1i04.sam

1. get statistics of mitochondria alignment

samtools flagstat reads_lib1i04.sam > mitochondria_stat.txt

1. make a new file without mitochondria, a new file clean_reads.bam will be created

samtools view -b -f 4 -o clean_reads.bam reads$i.sam

1. convert bam file to fastq, a new file clean_reads.fastq will be created

bamToFastq -i clean_reads.bam -fq clean_reads.fastq

And here it is the mitochondria stats:

0 + 0 in total (QC-passed reads + QC-failed reads)

0 + 0 secondary

0 + 0 supplementary

0 + 0 duplicates

0 + 0 mapped (N/A : N/A)

0 + 0 paired in sequencing

0 + 0 read1

0 + 0 read2

0 + 0 properly paired (N/A : N/A)

0 + 0 with itself and mate mapped

0 + 0 singletons (N/A : N/A)

0 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr

0 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr (mapQ>=5)