Hello everyone,
I have done fastqc on paired end fastq files for RNA. I have got an error for duplicate reads as most of the files failed for this criteria. I want filter duplicate reads in these fastq files and blast them to see what they actually are. I have seen some posts discussing about duplicate reads but I am looking for a way to filter out the duplicate reads from fastq files.
I have got another warning for some of the overrepresented sequences. Is there a way to deal with such sequences? There was no error for adapters but I am still removing the adapter sequences as I ran fastqc before doing that. thank you for the help!
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The easiest way would probably be to align the reads to the genome and pick up the duplicates based on the identical mapping coordinates.
It's probably rRNA, which might not be in your reference genome though.
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Both is normal for RNA-seq. I suggest you proceed with your analysis as usual.
I see. Thank you! Is there still any way to just filter duplicates from fastq. I just want to look at these.
Look at them in what way? It is not recommended to remove them in RNA-seq.
I want to see if they are primer dimers or just highly expressed. I won't remove them in either case.
No point in keeping them if they are primer dimers. They are going to waste CPU cycles.
You may also want to read this: https://sequencing.qcfail.com/articles/libraries-can-contain-technical-duplication/