GC/AT base content crossed at the tail of read
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tomas4482 ▴ 430

I used fastp and fastqc for quality control and trimming of some concatenated fq files. But I found something weird.

The GC/AT base content line at the tail crossed at around 90bp.

crossed tail.

At first I thought trimming the tail could solve this problem. But it fails. When trim the front 15bp and tail 10bp using fastp -f 15 -t 15 , the crossed base content line still crossed at around 60bp.

after trimming

This situation occurs only in a few concatenated fq. Others are fine. It seems concatenation is not the cause. Does anyone know what happens here?

Thanks.

DNA sequence WGS WES • 872 views
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I've read this document before. I don't think the front bias is problematic.

The real problems are: 1. I don't understand why and how the nt base content largely changed at the tail (but the ratio of G:C and A:T remains normal). 2. No matter how long I trim the tail (I've tried 10bp and 15bp), it does not remove the bias. This bias will move to a upstream position after filtering rather than disappear.

What does it mean? Do you have any idea?

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What kind of data is this? Have you tried to align it? That pattern may be a result of library prep method.

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