error when using sickle for quality trimming

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[sangita_b]

Hi

I have used scythe to trim adapters and am now using sickle to quality trim. 1 out if 20 files has come with the error below (19/20 seem to be fine). Can anyone suggest why this is happening and how I can solve this issue?

Thanks
Sangita

msxsb3@msngs:~/projects/uPAR_overexp/2a_D1_E4_EV_24$ /home/msxsb3/projects/uPAR_overexp/scythe_sickle/sickle-master/sickle pe -f 2aR1trimmed_sequences.fastq -r 2aR2trimmed_sequences.fastq -t sanger -o qtrim.1.fastq -p qtrim.2.fastq -s qtrim.unpaired.fastq -q 20 -l 20

ERROR: Quality value (0) does not fall within correct range for Sanger encoding.
Range for Sanger encoding: 33-126
FastQ record: NS500557:5:H3F3HBGXX:3:21509:25794:14643
Quality string: .A)AAFFFAF.FFFAFAFF<FFF.FFFFFFFFFF<FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF<FF<FF<F.FFFAFFF7FFFFFFF
Quality char: ''
Quality position: 76

[thackl]

The quality string given is only 75 bp long, but the error is put at position 76. There seems to be something wrong with that specific record - maybe the file is corrupted... You should have a look at the record in question.