Title
In-depth analysis of interrelation between quality scores and real errors in Illumina reads.
Abstract
In sequencing results, the quality score is reported for each base, representing the probability that the base is called incorrectly. The notion of quality scores was initially developed for conventional Sanger sequencing, but is widely used for next-generation sequencing techniques, including Illumina. In this paper, we carry out in-depth analysis of quality scores reported for Illumina reads and present how they are related to real errors in the reads. We confirmed strong interrelation between quality scores and real errors in Illumina reads, and observed that reverse reads tend to have lower quality scores than forward reads in paired-end reads do. In addition, we discovered other interesting patterns from quality score analysis. Our hope is that the findings in this paper will be helpful for designing error-correction and/or filtering methods for next-generation sequencing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609580
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
sequencing results,illumina read quality scores,genetics,genomics,illumina read errors,quality score analysis,molecular configurations,incorrectly called base,next generation sequencing techniques,conventional sanger sequencing,next generation networking,filtering,bioinformatics,sequential analysis
Data mining,Quality Score,Computer science,Genomics,Sanger sequencing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2013
1557-170X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sunyoung Kwon192.31
Seunghyun Park2669.29
Byunghan Lee31107.98
Sungroh Yoon456678.80