Hi,
I have some hundreds of sequences and library of reads, How is possible to extend these sequences with the reads from the both end of the sequences? But I do not want the software to merge the sequences as they are separate things, just to extend them with the help of the reads as much as possible?
I recently developed an assembler, Tadpole, for this problem. It's part of the BBMap package. Usage:
tadpole.sh in=sequences.fa extra=reads.fq out=extended.fa extendleft=200 extendright=200 ibb=f mode=extend
It will extend the sequences using kmer counts. You can set the length to extend as long as you want, but that's just an upper limit; it will stop earlier if it hits a branch.
(edit: modified command line to include mode=extend which I had forgotten)
(edit2: modified for updated syntax in v37.33+)
It accepts fasta and fastq. And you can just set the extendleft and extendright numbers to something high like 2000 if you want. They will only be extended until a branch is encountered in the DeBruijn graph, which depends on the organism. So, if you set them to 10, almost all the sequences will be extended by 10bp. If you set it to 1 million, none of them will be extended to one million - they'll all stop somewhere before that, since the extension will only continue as long as there is a single unambiguous best path (according to the thresholds you set). Therefore, just set them to a number X such that you don't want anything to extend more than X.
Hi! I have two sets of reads: mit_1.fastq and mit_2.fastq and I want to use them to extend my contigs.
I want to use tadpole but the parameter extra=reads.fq confuses me. How should I put my two sets of reads? (mit_1.fastq and mit_2.fastq)
Perhaps: extra=mit_1.fastq,mit_2.fastq?
Thank you in advance for you help :)
I am using this tool this week. May I ask you if there is a way to make it dump the unused reads in the mode=extend?
I saw that there is a outd option for "Write discarded reads, if using junk-removal flags", but I'm not sure that's what I am actually looking forward. I'd like to retrieve a FASTA file with reads that have not been used to extend the template.
Interesting challenge, I just wrote a tool (https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/wiki/ExtendReferenceWithReads) that takes as input
the (clipped) overlapping reads are used to extend the REF sequence in 5', 3' and in the contigs containing 'N'.
$ java -jar dist/extendrefwithreads.jar \
-R human_g1k_v37.fasta -f 0.3 \
f1.bam f2.bam f3.bam 2> /dev/null |\
cat -n | grep -E '(>|[atgc])'
1 >1
167 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNncgattaccctaacgctcac
168 cctaaccctcnccctntnccnncnncccnncttcttccgaTAACCCTAACCCTAACCCTA
3791 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNatt
3792 tatgcNctttntgctgtGATTCATGGCTGAAATCGTGTTTGACCAGCTATGTGTGTCTCT
8691 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNctagGATCCTTGAAGCGCCCCCAAGGGCATCTTCTC
64089 TGGTGAGGGAAATTAGAACCACGACAATTTGGGAACTTAGCTTCTGCCctgctccNNNNN
66589 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNgagtAGCTGAGACTAC
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What sort of format would you like the output to be? I assume you're using SAM or BAM as input.
I have the input sequences want to extend FASTA, reads in FASTA.
(I also have the sequences GFF and the reads mapped in BAM if needed).
I would like to have the extended sequences fasta and/or GFF.
Ah, now I understand what you're trying to do. Stated somewhat more clearly, you have incomplete contigs (presumably from another attempt at assembly) and want to extend them given an alignment to them. Perhaps you also want to do some scaffolding but that's unclear. If that's the case, you might mention that and one of the more assembly-experienced folks here can chime in.
A bit more different - trying to assemble an mRNA transcripts as I have dome part of each one (somewhere in the middle of it) and have a lots of reads