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Based on pre-alignment QA/QC, we need to trim low quality bases from the 3' end of reads. 

  • Click the Unaligned reads data node
  • Click Pre-alignment tools in the task menu
  • Click Trim bases (Figure 1) 

Figure 1. Invoking the Trim bases task

By default, Trim bases removes bases starting at the 3' end and continuing until it finds a base pair call with a Phred score of equal to or greater than 35 (Figure 2). 

  • Click Finish to run Trim bases with default settings


Figure 2. Configuring Trim bases

The Trim bases task will generate a new data node, Trimmed reads (Figure 3). We can view the task report for Trim bases by double-clicking either the Trim bases task node or the Trimmed reads data node or choosing Task report from the task menu. 


 

Figure 3. A Task and a Data node are created from the Trim bases task. Task and Data nodes that have been queued or are in progress are shown in a lighter color than completed tasks.

  • Double-click the Trimmed reads data node to open the task report

The report shows the percentage of trimmed reads and reads removed in a spreadsheet and a two graphs (Figure 4).  


Figure 4. Results of the Trim bases task

The results are fairly consistent across samples with ~2% of reads untrimmed, ~86% trimmed, and ~12% removed for each. The average quality score for each sample is increased with higher average quality scores at the 3' ends. 

  • Click RNA-Seq 5-AZA to return to the Analyses tab



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