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Questions tagged [alignment]

These questions are about sequence alignment.

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How to count the number of mapped read in 100-bp window from a BAM/SAM file

Although I know how to get total number of mapped read using samtools flagstat (samtools flagstat file_sorted.bam) but I want to count total number of mapped read ...
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How to output all sequences with bwa mem, not `*`?

I've been running bwa mem -a for alignment, using the -a flag---this will output all alignments for SE or unpaired PE I've ...
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Finding the conserved region of protein in a given set of Kingdom

We have to find the conserved region of proteins in a given set of kingdom and we have to give more weightage to distantly related organism. What approach I should take to solve this problem?
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Does the “.full.aln” file produced by snippy-core contain all bases of my input sequences aligned to the reference genome?

I have a number of sequences and a reference genome. I used snippy to align each individual sequence with the reference genome. I then used ...
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Total reads aligning to each reference within a bam file

I have two PCR amplicons that have been multiplexed and sequenced using the nanopore minion. I have aligned the fastq reads using minimap2 with a reference file containing both amplicon sequences and ...
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cDNA and alignment mapping

I am confused with RNA seq alignment. My understanding is that after Mature mRNA is isolated from the cell, it is then fragmented and using reverse transcriptase enzyme a cDNA copy is created which is ...
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How to align output of grep --color=always? (To QC fasta/fastq files)

Grepping out short sequences from a fasta or fastq file is a really useful way to look at sequencing data. Using the option --color=always makes this even more ...
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How to calculate Gene Ontology terms in python

I am testing different Protein-Protein Interaction networks alignment tools. I observed that all alignment tools show some ...
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How to assign the best gap penalty and gap extension penalty using BLOSUM65

For an assignment I must do a pairwise optimal local alignment using BLOSUM65 and five protein sequences. The algorithm I want to use is the Smith-Waterman. Context protein sequencing using Blastp: ...
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Sequence alignment using Markov Model

I am learning about applying Markov model to sequence alignment. The prof says that the transition probabilities from a gap-residue alignment to a residue-gap alignment and vice versa are both 0. Is ...
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How to map short sequences to long reads, recovering all multiply-mapped high-quality matches

The dilemma: I have a problem where I have around one million short sequences (21 bp to several 100s of basepairs) for which I need to identify all occurrences of in 20-30x coverage noisy long reads (...
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Counting letters in phylip alignment columns with Biopython

I have been using python 3.6 and biopython 1.72 to work with protein data files. I am using a protein sequence file (phylip format), for example: ...
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Efficiently aligning a lot of reads on the same small reference sequence

The context: I have a DNA-sequence coding for a protein, about 1500 bp in length. Using NGS, a lot of reads of (mutants of) this same sequence were acquired. All of these reads need to be aligned to ...
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Stand alone chaining tool for existing blast hits?

I have a table of blast hits in a database that I'd like to chain. What is a good choice for a 'stand alone' chaining tool? Is it simple to implement in Perl, for example? Example 'hit' data is here. ...
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Minimap2 -ax map-pb doesn't output tlen field

I have used minimap2 to map some pacbio reads to a reference genome. I would like to know the "insert size" (true length of sequence) relative to the reference. More specifically, I want to know the ...
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Glocal\semi-local\Hybride Globale-Local alignment with Python

I was looking for a simple way to do a glocal alignment. The case I have is I have a small sequence which should be find in a bigger one, thus typically a glocal alignment. Also I can not Install ...
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Find a map/correspondence between two versions of a genome

I am working with two versions of the C. elegans genome. I am finding interesting regions (specifically, tRNA genes) in version 1 and then I would like to know if version 2 also has a tRNA gene in ...
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Alignment using secondary and tertiary features of DNA

I m trying to align different sequences of length not greater than 50. Is there any way to incorporate other information such as stacking energy, entropy, bonds etc. If there any way to align ...
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pysam pileup: what reads appear in the pileup?

Cross-posted on Biostars (with no answers currently). I hope that's OK. I thought that iff a read matches the reference at a position, it would appear in the pileup column for that position. But ...
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GRCm37-designed exon target enrichment, which reference to use?

I have exomes from 24 individual mice. The exomes are the product of Roche's SeqCap EZ HyperCap target enrichment kit. I see that the mouse exome design comes from mm9/NCBI37, the previous major ...
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Difference between samtools mark duplicates and samtools remove duplicates?

What is difference between samtools mark duplicates and remove duplicates ? Is it necessary to mark duplicates before removing duplicates with samtools?
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Increase number of threads for GATK 4.0 HaplotypeCaller

I am using GATK version 4.0, I tried to use multiple threads for calling variants using HaplotypeCaller using following command ...
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Better aligner than bowtie2?

Bowtie2 is probably the most widely used aligner because of it's speed. Burrow-wheeler (BW) algorithms (including bwa) tend to ...
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How can I determine a mean sequence divergence for 10k sequences?

I am trying to analyze a number of repetitive sequences and as one step want to calculate a sequence divergence between the elements I found. Now in theory I wanted to generate a MSA of the sequences ...
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Test to determine if two genes/exons share the same evolutionary histories?

In classic phylogenetic inference one is usually given various orthologue sequences of a given gene across various species. Those sequences are then multiple aligned and used to construct a ...
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Interpreting bayesian phylogenetic model using Tracer?

I am doing phylodynamic analysis of virus sequences using bayesian method using BEAUti and BEAST. As a part of my analysis I am using Tracer to check how my model is working. I can interpret some of ...
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How to create a nexus file for BEAST?

I am learning to use BEAUTI and BEAST software. I followed their tutorial and was able to run example data without any problem. Now, I want to do phylodynamic analysis on my data. I have downloaded 70 ...
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Is there a standard definition for “assembly polishing”?

Is there a standard definition for "assembly polishing" in the field? Is there a standard definition for what polishing algorithms do? My understanding of "polishing" is strongly influenced by ...
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Reads mapped to exonic, intronic and intergenic regions

After the alignment step I checked the rnaseq metrics of all the samples. Among 40 samples three samples show high percentage of reads mapped to intronic regions. What could be the reason? ...
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visualisation of genome alignment

I was asked to check the synteny of some genes in two genome assemblies of the same species (PacBio & Illumina). I was given two scaffolds couples (so 4 scaffolds total) in the Illumina genome and ...
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Mugsy error: Can't find species II dna at output/software/mugsy_x86-64-v1r2.3/mugsy line 501

I have installed mugsy in order to create a multiple genome alignment and a phylogenetic tree of several species of nematodes. The following command successfully pulls out the help: ...
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How are Principal Component analyses and Admixture analyses from a genetic alignment different?

How are Principal Component analyses and Admixture analyses from a genetic alignment different? My understanding is that a PCA will take raw genetic differences across the entire alignment and plot ...
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Question regarding the function pairwiseAlignment in R

I'm a bit confused and would appreciate your assistance, please. I'm trying to use the pairwiseAlignment function from the ...
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Is there a Python/R package with the ability to convert an alignment and reference into a CIGAR?

I'm writing a python function from scratch to do this, but I feel like this must exist in some standard bioinformatics library already. In principle, this is a simply regex operation which many must ...
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Books on bioinformatics algorithms

I'm looking for a book about bioinformatics algorithms, such as alignment, BLAST search, and variant calling. I'm hoping reading about this subject will give me a deeper understanding of the ...
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Are there certain alignment methods/tools which perform better with a high density of indels?

I have a set of experiments which should result in WGS reads with a high density of indels. Question: Are there certain alignment tools/methods which perform respectively "better" with these reads? ...
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Extracting strand specific reads from MinION cDNA-PCR protocol

I recently performed my first MinION run, and now I'm trying to analyze the data. Being pretty new to the bioinformatics field, I was hoping some of you could help me out. As a bit of background, I'...
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igv_plotter error: Xvfb did not start

I am trying to get screenshots from alignments of reads to a genome in IGV (Integrated Genome Viewer) using igv_plotter. ...
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Does the DNA or RNA of some ethnic groups map better than others' to the human reference genome sequence?

I believe that the human genome reference took DNA samples from different people and that some natural variation is included in extra contigs. However, the human reference genome comes from a ...
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aligner for 1D^2 oxford nanopore data

I am wondering if anyone has tried aligning 1d^2 RNA-seq data. I am trying that on minimap2. It is giving me very low ~50% of mapped reads. it gives ~95% mapped reads for 1D. I am using the following ...
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Generating the reconstructed alignment from BAM

I have a (small) BAM file with CIGAR and MD fields. Question 1: What tools exists in Python and/or R to reconstruct the alignment between the reference and the read in a BAM? Given that this is a ...
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Can I export the SNPs between whole genome alignments using the command line?

I am using Mauve to align two whole genomes. I use the following command to get the alignment in xmfa format: ...
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gffread: GFaSeqGet errors on coordinate overhang

Disclaimer: I had this issue posted on Tuxedo Tools users group and shared it on Twitter, but could not get an answer to this from the developers, nor find documentation of this issue online. So, I'll ...
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Can I index a compressed FASTA file using STAR?

I am using STAR to align RNA-seq reads to a reference genome. Before the alignment, I need to generate an index of the reference genome. I use the following code to generate the index successfully: <...
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Strange per sequence GC content results

I would be grateful if someone could take a quick look at these FASTQC results. This is rna-seq paired-end data. From the FASTQC manual, an unusual distribution seems to be suggestive of contamination ...
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Alignment QC differences between HISAT2 and Qualimap

I used hisat2 for aligning reads to to the genome. I have an alignment summary for sample1 as follows: ...
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How to read .bwt file .sa file?

In BWA project in bwt.c file I found bwt_dump_bwt method and bwt_dump_sa method. I want to use them to read .bwt file and .sa file. I wrote the following program: ...
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How BWA generate index files?

I need to know how BWA generate bw and sa in less memory usage ? Do they save all rotations temporary ? I need to know do BWA stores all rotations so that it can sort the rotations alphabetically ? ...
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Generating burrows-wheeler-transform and a suffix array of a DNA sequence with less memory

Also posted on biostars After indexing bwa index -a bwtsw reference.fa I got files. like .bwt file and .sa file. The naive way of generating these file is:   ...

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