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use cutadapt to trim bases at begaining of each reads

Here is the QC report with Per base sequence content. Do I need to trim the 1st 15 bases when using cutadapt? enter image description here

trimming adapter bases cutadapt

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You should not need to trim the bases. See this blog post: https://sequencing.qcfail.com/articles/positional-sequence-bias-in-random-primed-libraries/

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