Removing Primers: Cutadapt vs Denoising

Hi again @SoilRotifer,

Thank you so much for responding so quickly and in such detail! The truth is that it is great to have a forum where you can expose your doubts and receive such complete answers. My congratulations to the moderators! :clap: :clap: :clap:

You are rigth. The quality control proccess should be as completed as possible. But I thougth that, maybe, I was adding redundant steps in the pipeline.

I admit I was wrapping my head around that. Thank you for suggesting these posts!! I am going to read these posts!!! :smiley:

Also, I would like to ask another question related to this. In a primer trimming with cutadapt, you use --discard-untrimmed to discard all the sequences without primers add in the cutadapt command of your data. But, how are you sure this parameter is working well?

I mean, for example, if your original sample files show a high number of reads and your cutadapt files:

  • Show the opposite (poor number of reads in the count summary).
  • Your cutadapt reads number be too similar to the original?

In these two cases, the --discard-untrimmed wouldn't work because the filtering was too restrictive or too lax, right? Or I am wrong?

I have found this post in the forum: some questions about cutadapt demux-paired - #3 by LiuZjiia

And it was really useful, I will add the extra-parameters you suggest! But I still has the filtering question in mind.

Again, thank you so much again for your help!!

Elsa