I think this is a bowtie2 question, not a samtools question.
Why is bowtie2 setting those base call qualities to zero ?
- tom blackwell -
On Sun, 19 Feb 2017, Jiri Nehyba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask for help with mutation calling using samtools-bcftools.
> Specifically my problem is that I am loosing (almost) all my reverse bases
> and mutations are called only on forward bases (reads).
>
> I have installed last version of samtools and bcftools (1.3.1).
>
> I have paired fastqs from amplicon panel libraries sequenced on Illumina
> MiSeq. I cut off the primer sequences using Cutadapt, aligned reads to hg38
> genome with Bowtie2 (paired alignment), sorted and indexed bam file with
> samtools and then I used following command:
>
> samtools mpileup -u -v -d 1000000 -f hg38.fa PREFIX.bam | bcftools call -c -v
>> PREFIX.vcf
>
> Resulting vcf file looks like this (showing just three rows and only some of
> the fields)
>
> chr16 3243407 . T C 221.999 . DP=928; . . .
> ;DP4=1,0,462,0;MQ=42;FQ=-281.989;PV4=1,1,0.454462,1 GT:PL 1/1:255,255,0
> chr16 3243888 . C T 221.999 . DP=2982; . . .
> ;DP4=2,0,1486,2;MQ=42;FQ=-281.989;PV4=1,0.458362,0.4298,1 GT:PL
> 1/1:255,255,0
> chr16 3243922 . A T 221.999 . DP=2982; . . .
> ;DP4=1,0,1486,4;MQ=42;FQ=-281.989;PV4=1,0.338485,0.450054,1 GT:PL
> 1/1:255,255,0
>
> What I don't like is the DP4 field that suggests extreme strand bias.
>
> I tried to find out why are those reverse bases discarded - there is no
> reason for generally lower quality score - amplicons are ligated randomly in
> both orientations and I am getting both sides of each amplicon in R1 and R2
> reads.
>
> The only thing that prevents the "loss" of the bases is setting the Q to 0,
> like that:
>
> samtools mpileup -u -v -Q 0 -d 1000000 -f hg38.fa PREFIX.bam | bcftools call
> -c -v > PREFIX.vcf
>
> Result:
>
> chr16 3243407 . T C 221.999 . DP=928; . . .
> ;DP4=2,1,462,463;MQ=42;FQ=-281.989;PV4=1,1,0.419714,1 GT:PL 1/1:255,255,0
> chr16 3243888 . C T 221.999 . DP=2982; . . .
> ;DP4=2,2,1489,1489;MQ=42;FQ=-281.989;PV4=1,0.493227,0.40081,1 GT:PL
> 1/1:255,255,0
> chr16 3243922 . A T 221.999 . DP=2982; . . .
> ;DP4=4,3,1487,1488;MQ=42;FQ=-281.989;PV4=1,1,1,1 GT:PL 1/1:255,255,0
>
> If I set Q to more than 0, for example 1 I will again loose almost all
> reverse bases.
>
> Finally, a look at mpileup file obtained by this command: samtools mpileup
> -Q 0 -d 1000000 -f hg38.fa PREFIX.bam > PREFIX.pileup
>
> I see that half of the bases is getting score ! that is 0 :
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Jiri
>
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