Dear Community and Qiime development team,
I have an expensive set of 96 fusion primers which target the 18S gene in mixed template DNA extracts. The design of the primers (i.e. specifically non-target binding sequences) follows the EMP pages (at http://press.igsb.anl.gov/earthmicrobiome/protocols-and-standards/18s/ ).
I have already used those primers on 96 samples of one particular study, and would like to re-use these primers - in order to save money - in a second set of samples belonging to the same study. I would prefer not doing this, but of course need to work cost efficiently.
During sequence pre-processing I remove barcodes using qiime cutadapt trim-paired
and later, to remove remnants, a second time using cutadapt
( the representative set of sequences is exported to fasta, re trimmed, and re-imported). Despite this, I am sure that some barcode remnants remain, and of course the barcode and tag sequences are contained in the metadata of all samples.
Will duplicated barcode sequences in the metadata prevent me from processing multiple independent sets samples using the same primer pairs? Or to put differently, is it possible in one project to use sets of n fusion primers for multiple sets of n samples, without collisions during later analysis?
I would be looking forward to hearing from you in due course.
Kind regards,
Paul