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Remove chimeric reads

Gavin Douglas edited this page Feb 17, 2016 · 24 revisions

Our script chimeraFilter.pl wraps usearch (v6.1), specifically the uchime algorithm, to remove chimeric reads.

Here is an example command:

chimeraFilter.pl -type 1 -db /usr/local/db/single_strand/Bacteria_RDP_trainset15_092015.udb fasta_files/* 
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