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5.8 years ago
jcarlosariute
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Hello,
I have been trying to use FastX Toolkit's Collapser on my RNA-seq data. However, the collapsed outfiles are coming all empty. Has anybody ever had this problem?
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Considering that Collapser it's not used any longer, what would be the next steps after merging my files?
Thank you all
That is not appropriate. You want to count reads so collapsing them would defeat the purpose.
what are the error messages ? what is the output of
The outputfiles were comming all empty. It didn't even show me an specific error code. They were just empty.
What exactly do you want to do? Fastx_toolkit is an ancient tool that does not well support paired-end data (or actually does not suport it at all). Give some details on your aim so that we can direct you to a better tool.
Thank you for help. I would like to remove the repeated reads of the same transcripts to assemble the transcriptome (at least that's what I thought of).
And why would you do that?
You need to explain what you are trying to do. Why did you merge the files (did you mean to say you concatenated files)? Insert sizes for RNAseq libraries are generally in a range where even the longest possible Illumina reads should not allow R1/R2 reads to merge/overlap.
Normally, one would take RNAseq data, scan/trim it as needed, align with a splice-aware aligner (if you expect splicing) and then the aligned reads are counted using
featureCounts/htseq-countto generate raw counts that are then fed into DESeq2 for diff exp analysis.If you are deviating from these steps then you need to have a good reason to do so.