Hi,
Is it normal to have a higher number of read counts in a sample where initially the raw reads were much lower – for example in one of the samples the total number of read counts come up as 1,500,000 but the number of reads in the merged fastq file show as ~200,000.
Below here are vsearch commands used after primmer trimming, filtering of low quality and length filtering and merging samples:
./vsearch -derep_fulllength fastq_filter_filtered.fa -output derep.fasta -sizeout --minuniquesize 2 --notrunclabels --log log/derep_fulllength.log
./vsearch --uchime_denovo derep.fasta --chimeras chimeras.fasta --nonchimeras non_chimeras.fasta --log log/chimera.log
./vsearch --cluster_size non_chimeras.fasta --id 0.99 --sizein --uc all.clusterd.uc --relabel OTU_ --centroids otus.fa --otutabout all.otutab.txt --log log/cluster_size.log
Or
./vsearch -usearch_global non_chimeras.fasta -db otus.fa -strand plus -id 0.99 -uc test.all.clusterd.uc --otutabout all.otutab.txt
A snippet of .uc file below:
H 1 377 100.0 + 0 0 = 11B.100479;size=155080 OTU_2
H 12 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 10B.34;size=194528 OTU_13
H 0 378 100.0 + 0 0 = 10B.2;size=477709 OTU_1
H 2 378 100.0 + 0 0 = 11B.100424;size=60847 OTU_3
H 379 378 99.5 + 0 0 85M2D291M 11B.100550;size=51372 OTU_380
H 0 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 10B.19;size=86736 OTU_1
H 0 377 100.0 + 0 0 I377M 10B.155;size=24716 OTU_1
H 2437 378 99.2 + 0 0 261M3D114M 10B.1;size=77516 OTU_2438
H 39 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 10B.4954;size=20665 OTU_40
H 70 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 11B.101186;size=17240 OTU_71
H 3034 378 99.5 + 0 0 378M 11B.100453;size=18128 OTU_3035
H 3 379 100.0 + 0 0 = Mo1-B.2805042;size=13045 OTU_4
H 3034 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 11B.100944;size=21620 OTU_3035
H 1366 378 99.5 + 0 0 56M2D320M 10B.1876;size=15308 OTU_1367
H 1 376 100.0 + 0 0 I376M 11B.147553;size=10823 OTU_2
H 4 376 100.0 + 0 0 = 21B.1696614;size=10735 OTU_5
H 6 379 100.0 + 0 0 = 10B.122;size=8673 OTU_7
H 5 377 100.0 + 0 0 = Mo1-B.2805101;size=8937 OTU_6
H 7 377 100.0 + 0 0 = Mo1-B.2805055;size=7573 OTU_8
H 12 377 99.7 + 0 0 I377M 10B.132;size=10329 OTU_13
N * * * . * * * 11B.100797;size=9393 *
H 39 378 99.5 + 0 0 378M 11B.101991;size=7131 OTU_40
N * * * . * * * 11B.100554;size=8073 *
H 8 378 100.0 + 0 0 = 10B.171;size=5889 OTU_9
H 0 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 10B.2613;size=5719 OTU_1
H 0 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 10B.2234;size=5437 OTU_1
H 9 378 100.0 + 0 0 = 10B.111;size=5398 OTU_10
N * * * . * * * 11B.100730;size=5648 *
H 9 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 10B.6169;size=4949 OTU_10
H 0 377 99.7 + 0 0 I377M 10B.393;size=4736 OTU_1
H 0 378 99.7 + 0 0 378M 10B.900;size=4310 OTU_1
H 2437 377 99.2 + 0 0 I260M3D114M 10B.605;size=4092 OTU_2438
Your expert advice would be much appreciated.
Kind regards