Btrim: a fast, lightweight adapter and quality trimming program for next-generation sequencing technologies - PubMed (original) (raw)

Btrim: a fast, lightweight adapter and quality trimming program for next-generation sequencing technologies

Yong Kong. Genomics. 2011 Aug.

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Abstract

Btrim is a fast and lightweight software to trim adapters and low quality regions in reads from ultra high-throughput next-generation sequencing machines. It also can reliably identify barcodes and assign the reads to the original samples. Based on a modified Myers's bit-vector dynamic programming algorithm, Btrim can handle indels in adapters and barcodes. It removes low quality regions and trims off adapters at both or either end of the reads. A typical trimming of 30M reads with two sets of adapter pairs can be done in about a minute with a small memory footprint. Btrim is a versatile stand-alone tool that can be used as the first step in virtually all next-generation sequence analysis pipelines. The program is available at http://graphics.med.yale.edu/trim/.

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