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Trimming didnt work

Hi! Im new here. I started doing the RNA-Seq analysis. I have data from Illumina. I did the quality control with fastqc and tried to trim it using trimmomatic program and my data didnt change at all. I take under consideration that maybe i should change the values i used. Heres the command i used. I would appreciate every help.

java -jar /path../Trimmomatic-0.39/trimmomatic-0.39.jar PE UP1_1.fastq UP1_2.fastq UP1_trimmed_1.fq UP1_unpaired_1.fq UP1_trimmed_1.fq UP1_unpaired_2.fq ILLUMINACLIP:adapter.fa:2:30:5

Is it possible that i dont need to trim my data? Thanks for every respond :)

rna-seq

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I did the quality control with fastqc and tried to trim it using trimmomatic program and my data didnt change at all

Your data does not necessarily need to have contamination/extraneous sequences. It may be clean and can be used for further analysis.

By the report I got I think it looks nice, but I thought anything it would change. Report is the same as before the trimming one. Maybe the values I used were not strick enough for my data?

If you show us the before report from FastQC, it would be useful. Add images for per base sequence quality, per base sequence content using these directions: How to add images to a Biostars post

Your data looks clean. You can move on to next step of alignment.

Thank you for your help!

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