filterAndTrim {dada2} | R Documentation

## Filter and trim fastq file(s).

### Description

Filters and trims an input fastq file(s) (can be compressed) based on several user-definable criteria, and outputs fastq file(s) (compressed by default) containing those trimmed reads which passed the filters. Corresponding forward and reverse fastq file(s) can be provided as input, in which case filtering is performed on the forward and reverse reads independently, and both reads must pass for the read pair to be output.

### Usage

    filterAndTrim(fwd, filt, rev = NULL, filt.rev = NULL, compress = TRUE,
      truncQ = 2, truncLen = 0, trimLeft = 0, trimRight = 0, maxLen = Inf,
      minLen = 20, maxN = 0, minQ = 0, maxEE = Inf, rm.phix = TRUE,
      orient.fwd = NULL, matchIDs = FALSE, id.sep = "\\s",
      id.field = NULL, multithread = FALSE, n = 1e+05, OMP = TRUE,
      verbose = FALSE)

### Arguments

`fwd` | (Required). `character`. The path(s) to the input fastq file(s).
`filt` | (Required). `character`. The path(s) to the output filtered file(s) corresponding to the `fwd` input files. If containing directory does not exist, it will be created.
`rev` | (Optional). Default NULL. The path(s) to the input reverse fastq file(s) from paired-end sequence data corresponding to those provided to the `fwd` argument. If NULL, the `fwd` files are processed as single-reads.
`filt.rev` | (Optional). Default NULL, but required if `rev` is provided. The path(s) to the output fastq file(s) corresponding to the `rev` input. Can also provide a directory, which if not existing will be created (how to differentiate between dir/file in len1 case?).
`compress` | (Optional). Default TRUE. If TRUE, the output fastq file(s) are gzipped. FILTERING AND TRIMMING PARAMETERS ——— Note: When filtering paired reads... If a length 1 vector is provided, the same parameter value is used for the forward and reverse reads. If a length 2 vector is provided, the first value is used for the forward reads, and the second for the reverse reads.
`truncQ` | (Optional). Default 2. Truncate reads at the first instance of a quality score less than or equal to `truncQ`.
`truncLen` | (Optional). Default 0 (no truncation). Truncate reads after `truncLen` bases. Reads shorter than this are discarded.
`trimLeft` | (Optional). Default 0. The number of nucleotides to remove from the start of each read. If both `truncLen` and `trimLeft` are provided, filtered reads will have length `truncLen-trimLeft`.
`trimRight` | (Optional). Default 0. The number of nucleotides to remove from the end of each read. If both `truncLen` and `trimRight` are provided, truncation will be performed after `trimRight` is enforced.
`maxLen` | (Optional). Default Inf (no maximum). Remove reads with length greater than maxLen. maxLen is enforced before trimming and truncation.
`minLen` | (Optional). Default 20. Remove reads with length less than minLen. minLen is enforced after trimming and truncation.
`maxN` | (Optional). Default 0. After truncation, sequences with more than `maxN` Ns will be discarded. Note that `dada` does not allow Ns.
`minQ` | (Optional). Default 0. After truncation, reads contain a quality score less than `minQ` will be discarded.
`maxEE` | (Optional). Default `Inf` (no EE filtering). After truncation, reads with higher than `maxEE` "expected errors" will be discarded. Expected errors are calculated from the nominal definition of the quality score: EE = sum(10^(-Q/10))
`rm.phix` | (Optional). Default TRUE. If TRUE, discard reads that match against the phiX genome, as determined by `isPhiX`.
`orient.fwd` | (Optional). Default NULL. A character string present at the start of valid reads. Only allows unambiguous nucleotides. This string is compared to the start of each read, and the reverse complement of each read. If it exactly matches the start of the read, the read is kept. If it exactly matches the start of the reverse-complement read, the read is reverse-complemented and kept. Otherwise the read if filtered out. For paired reads, the string is compared to the start of the forward and reverse reads, and if it matches the start of the reverse read the reaads are swapped and kept. The primary use of this parameter is to unify the orientation of amplicon sequencing libraries that are a mixture of forward and reverse orientations, and that include the forward primer on the reads.
`matchIDs` | (Optional). Default FALSE. Paired-read filtering only. Whether to enforce matching between the id-line sequence identifiers of the forward and reverse fastq files. If TRUE, only paired reads that share id fields (see below) are output. If FALSE, no read ID checking is done. Note: `matchIDs=FALSE` essentially assumes matching order between forward and reverse reads. If that matched order is not present future processing steps may break (in particular `mergePairs`).
`id.sep` | (Optional). Default "\s" (white-space). Paired-read filtering only. The separator between fields in the id-line of the input fastq files. Passed to the `strsplit`.
`id.field` | (Optional). Default NULL (automatic detection). Paired-read filtering only. The field of the id-line containing the sequence identifier. If NULL (the default) and matchIDs is TRUE, the function attempts to automatically detect the sequence identifier field under the assumption of Illumina formatted output.
`multithread` | (Optional). Default is FALSE. If TRUE, input files are filtered in parallel via `mclapply`. If an integer is provided, it is passed to the `mc.cores` argument of `mclapply`. Note that the parallelization here is by forking, and each process is loading another fastq file into memory. This option is ignored in Windows, as Windows does not support forking, with `mc.cores` set to 1. If memory is an issue, execute in a clean environment and reduce the chunk size `n` and/or the number of threads.
`n` | (Optional). Default `1e5`. The number of records (reads) to read in and filter at any one time. This controls the peak memory requirement so that very large fastq files are supported. See `FastqStreamer` for details.
`OMP` | (Optional). Default TRUE. Whether or not to use OMP multithreading when calling `FastqStreamer`. Should be set to FALSE if calling this function within a parallelized chunk of code. If `multithread=TRUE`, this argument will be coerced to FALSE.
`verbose` | (Optional). Default FALSE. Whether to output status messages.

### Details

`filterAndTrim` is a multithreaded convenience interface for the `fastqFilter` and `fastqPairedFilter` filtering functions. Note that error messages and tracking are not handled gracefully when using the multithreading functionality. If errors arise, it is recommended to re-run without multithreading to troubleshoot the issue.

### Value

Integer matrix. Returned invisibly (i.e. only if assigned to something). Rows correspond to the input files, columns record the reads.in and reads.out after filtering.

### See Also

`fastqFilter` `fastqPairedFilter` `FastqStreamer`

### Examples

    testFastqs = c(system.file("extdata", "sam1F.fastq.gz", package="dada2"),
                   system.file("extdata", "sam2F.fastq.gz", package="dada2"))
    filtFastqs <- c(tempfile(fileext=".fastq.gz"), tempfile(fileext=".fastq.gz"))
    filterAndTrim(testFastqs, filtFastqs, maxN=0, maxEE=2, verbose=TRUE)
    filterAndTrim(testFastqs, filtFastqs, truncQ=2, truncLen=200, rm.phix=TRUE)

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