How to remove poor quality sequences from a fasta file?
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Kumar ▴ 120

I have a fasta file, which consist of thousands of viral genomes. I need to remove poor quality genomes which contain more than 30% NNNNNNN. Therefore, kindly help me to do the same.

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I need to remove poor quality genomes which contain more than 30% NNNNNNN.

You can't assume that those genomes are poor quality. Perhaps that region is just not sequenced. N's are also used to pad/indicate areas that are not sequenced/sequenceable using current technologies.

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I agree @genomax, But these sequences are creating problems while alignment, that is why I would like to remove the same. I have good sum of viral genomes, therefore, I would like to keep precise base called genomes rather than the NNNN contains genomes.

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microfuge ★ 1.9k

UCSC browser utils has a binary which does exactly that available here http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/faFilterN

faFilterN - Get rid of sequences with too many N's

usage: faFilterN in.fa out.fa maxPercentN

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Thank you @microfuge. I have one clarification, in the command line maxPercentN should be replaced by 30 or 30%?

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From what I remember Just the number without percentage sign.

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What do you think? Will % be a valid input for an option?

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My rule of thumb: If doing something takes less than 10 seconds and can't hurt anyone, I just do it. Writing a question and waiting for a response is guaranteed to take longer than that.

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I regret for the same.

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