Build Graph lost k-mers

Question: Build Graph lost k-mers

3.2 years ago by

lardo • 0

lardo • 0 wrote:

I have a FASTA file contains unique k-mers with the read length is the k-mer size:

>kmer_1
ATGACAGCCTTTTTTAAA
>kmer_2
ATGACAGCCTTTTTTAAT

Then I used the API of gatb-core-1.0.6-Linux :

Graph::create ((char const *)"-in %s -kmer-size %d -abundance-min 1 -nb-cores %d -out %s", xxxx);

There should be 11,571,887 unique k-mer in my file, but the graph build by this file contains only 11,065,132 unique k-mers.

I think this program lost some useful k-mers while storing k-mers.

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modified 3.2 years ago by Brian Bushnell ♦ 15k • written 3.2 years ago by lardo • 0

3.2 years ago by

edrezen • 700

France

edrezen • 700 wrote:

Hello,

It is possible that you have N characters inside your data. In such a case, no valid kmer can be built, so the read having one or several N won't be used.

Could you check this is the case of your input ?

ADD COMMENT • link written 3.2 years ago by edrezen • 700

No 'N' character in the reads.The lost k-mers can be found in my file but not contained in the graph.

ADD REPLY • link written 3.2 years ago by lardo • 0

3.2 years ago by

Brian Bushnell ♦ 15k

Walnut Creek, USA

Brian Bushnell ♦ 15k wrote:

Perhaps the program is storing reverse-complements in a canonical fashion, so they are only represented once. That's fairly typical.

You can count kmers with BBTools and, using the 'rcomp' flag, enable or disable storing of kmers and their reverse-complements independently, to get the count each way:

kmercountexact.sh in=file.fasta k=18 rcomp=t

kmercountexact.sh in=file.fasta k=18 rcomp=f

ADD COMMENT • link modified 3.2 years ago • written 3.2 years ago by Brian Bushnell ♦ 15k

Yes GATB does collapse each k-mer and its reverse complement into a single canonical kmer.

ADD REPLY • link written 3.2 years ago by Rayan Chikhi • 1.3k

If this answer does not solve your problem, would you mind posting the dataset? (I'm assuming this is a ~200 MB file, possibly much less if gzipped)

ADD REPLY • link written 3.2 years ago by Rayan Chikhi • 1.3k

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