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Non mapping sequences in genome

How can I extract the sequences that didn't match with the reference genome? I need those in usable file, not just to eliminate them.

rna-seq

1 answer

If you were using bbmap.sh (aligner from BBMap package) then you can collect unmapped sequences using outu= option. Something like

bbmap.sh in1=R1.fq.gz in2=R2.fq.gz outu1=R1_unmap.fq.gz outu2=R2_unmap.fq.gz ....

Some other aligner will also allow you to do this during mapping. Otherwise you can use samtools later to filter these from aligned data files.

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