TagDust—a program to eliminate artifacts from next generation sequencing data
Open Access
- 7 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 25 (21) , 2839-2840
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp527
Abstract
Motivation: Next-generation parallel sequencing technologies produce large quantities of short sequence reads. Due to experimental procedures various types of artifacts are commonly sequenced alongside the targeted RNA or DNA sequences. Identification of such artifacts is important during the development of novel sequencing assays and for the downstream analysis of the sequenced libraries. Results: Here we present TagDust, a program identifying artifactual sequences in large sequencing runs. Given a user-defined cutoff for the false discovery rate, TagDust identifies all reads explainable by combinations and partial matches to known sequences used during library preparation. We demonstrate the quality of our method on sequencing runs performed on Illumina's Genome Analyzer platform. Availability: Executables and documentation are available from http://genome.gsc.riken.jp/osc/english/software/. Contact:timolassmann@gmail.comKeywords
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