Hello Jianguang,
This is in reply to this email and your prior email from yesterday 9/6
subject "Tophat settings".
The testing here was a very good way to see how parameters impact mapping.
In addition, see below ...
On 9/6/12 2:32 PM, Du, Jianguang wrote:
Dear All,
I tested how to set the "Number of mismatches allowed in the initial
read mapping" as follows.
At first, I ran FASTQ Groomer on a dataset to get the number of total
reads. The total number of the reads is 17510227.
Then I ran Tophat after set "Number of mismatches allowed in the
initial read mapping" as 1, and then ran "flagstat" under "NGS: SAM
Tools". Here is the statistic information of Thophat output:
18162942 + 0 in total (QC-passed reads + QC-failed reads)
0 + 0 duplicates
18162942 + 0 mapped (100.00%:-nan%)
0 + 0 paired in sequencing
0 + 0 read1
0 + 0 read2
0 + 0 properly paired (-nan%:-nan%)
0 + 0 with itself and mate mapped
0 + 0 singletons (-nan%:-nan%)
0 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr
0 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr (mapQ>=5)
Next I ran Tophat after set "Number of mismatches allowed in the
initial read mapping" as 0, and then ran "flagstat" under "NGS: SAM
Tools". Here is the statistic information of Thophat output:
16100027 + 0 in total (QC-passed reads + QC-failed reads)
0 + 0 duplicates
16100027 + 0 mapped (100.00%:-nan%)
0 + 0 paired in sequencing
0 + 0 read1
0 + 0 read2
0 + 0 properly paired (-nan%:-nan%)
0 + 0 with itself and mate mapped
0 + 0 singletons (-nan%:-nan%)
0 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr
0 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr (mapQ>=5)
Does it mean about 0.6 million reads are aligned for 2 times or more
after I set "Number of mismatches allowed in the initial read mapping"
as 1,
Maybe, but I don't think it is that simple, nor something that is
important for the final result. What this really means in the end is
that more reads were permitted to be mapped because the criteria was
less stringent. A mismatch of 1 was allowed in the initial step, so more
reads were available to meet the other mapping criteria. More of these
passed the downsteam mapping criteria than in the other dataset and were
eventually included in the output. This is why the number of mapped
reads is higher.
however about 1.4 million reads can not be aligned because of more
stringent setting?
Yes, if you use more stringent criteria (with any mapping tool, not just
TopHat), less of your data will map. A mismatch of 0 is an exact match,
which is maximum stringency, so less reads met the initial mapping
criteria, removing them from downstream evaluation by other mapping
criteria. Then, less of them passed this downstream mapping criteria
than in the other dataset and less were included in the output. This is
why the number of mapped reads is lower.
If the other mapping criteria for both runs was the same, and the only
variable change was this one, then a reasonable way to explain these
results would be to state something like: the initial mapping with
mismatch 0 filtered out sequences that would have otherwise mapped if a
mismatch 1 were used instead.
Which number should we choose?
This is something that you will need to decide. There are likely many
ways to analyze this further, but sometimes just actually looking at
some of the data in browser can provide a lot of information that
statistics cannot. Pick a few favorite (complex and simple) gene bounds
with spliced transcripts, add in your mapping results, put the data into
a browser (Trackster, UCSC, etc.) and see which make the most sense for
your particular experiment, dataset, and genome. (There are no hard
rules around this).
I don't mean to push you towards another list again, but want you to get
the answers you need. If you really do have serious concerns about how
the TopHat mapping algorithm itself is functioning, or suspect a
problem, the tool authors and the mailing list dedicated to this exact
topic is really the best resource to discuss the finer details.
tophat.cuffli...@gmail.com
Best wishes for your project,
Jen
Galaxy team
Thanks.
Jianguang
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