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dec986
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Hello,
I have a fastq file that says it was run on a machine with a unique ID NB501139
but I don't know how I can match this with a machine type, I assume this is an Illumina machine? I cannot find any Illumina instrument type that would have a name like this? I need this for trimmomatic to know which adapters to look for.
thanks
There is no correlation between sequencer type and the adapters in your reads. What you are looking for is the type of kit used to make the libraries.
Just use the
adapters.fa
file included in BBMap suite to trim the data. It contains sequences of adapters from most common library kits. You can usebbduk.sh
program included in BBMap as an alternative totrimmomatic
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