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Filter low quality tiles from fastq files downloaded from SRA

Hello

I am looking for a way to filter low quaility tiles from fastq files downloaded from SRA. I am aware that BBMap has a module called FilterByTile that does exactly that. However the developer state that "Renamed reads (such as those in the SRA) probably won’t work."

Can anyone recommend a similar tool that can parse fastq files obtained from SRA?

Thanks in advance

fastq quality filtering sra

If those reads are renamed then the tile information is probably lost.

I'm not I understand why. This is an example for a read ID from the file: SRR1976450.3 HWI-ST640:627:D26AFACXX:3:1101:1995:2149 As far I understand the sequence 3:1101:1995:2149 correspond to the flowcell lane,tile and X and Y coordinates within the tile. So it appear the information is there.

then there's only one way to find out!

That's indeed not how a fastq renamed by SRA looks like, so you might be lucky. It seems all necessary information is there. From where/how did you download this file(s)?

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