to separate assembled reads on the basis of size.

Question

[faizansaleem1992]

Hello,

I have assembled my raw reads into contigs, now I want to remove contigs that have size less that 70,000 bp. How can I do that.

Kindly help it is very necessary for me.

[lakhujanivijay]

Dear Faizan,

This is one of the basic tasks, hence, it has been already answered a couple of times on biostars. For basic questions, you can query google like this

filter fasta on size: biostars.org

This will provide you the answers posted on biostars.org. Your question is highly likely to be closed by admins.

Tip: Before posting try searching on google as mentioned above or use the search box within biostars.

Good luck!

[Medhat]

there is written scripts here

http://www.bioinformatics-made-simple.com/2012/07/how-to-filter-sequence-by-their-length.html