Quality Plot Confusion

Hi! I had went to view my demux.qzv file and this is the quality plot that I was given. I haven't seen one that looks like this before. I was wondering if it looked ok and where it would be plausible to truncate since there doesn't seem to be a clear point where all of the data starts to lose quality. I have attached the image below. Thank you in advance!

Hi @Nadine_Veasley :smiley: :wave:

What kind of sequencing platform is your data from? My first guess is this is the result of binned quality scores from the Novaseq or Nextseq.

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Yes, the samples weresequenced in a NovaSeq 6000 SP lane with 2x250nt and produced ~ 1 billion reads.

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HI again @Nadine_Veasley ,

I believe you have your answer :smiley:. These plots are due to the sequencing platform you used, they give binned quality scores - so the quality plot looks different.

Try searching the forum (it's an amazing resource if you tap into it!) . There are many posts on the forum about moving forward with this data, like this one.

best,

Vic

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