James B. Pease (https://www.peaselab.github.io)
This program removes adapters, trims, and quality-filters Illumina short reads. The program first will automatically find adapters sequences in your reads and remove them using Scythe (https://github.com/vsbuffalo/scythe), then reads are filtered by length, quality scores, and in the case of highly repetition of sequence. This provides a quick, integrated, and installation-free method to reduce error in your Illumina short reads. You can also skip Scythe and use your own adapter trimmer, but still use SHEAR for all other trimming.
- Simultaneous pair trimming and discarding of orphaned reads (i.e. the other pair of a filtered read).
- Poly-A and Poly-T tail trimming (good for RNA-Seq)
- Removes dinucleotide repeat reads.
- Automatically finds adapter sequences from your samples.
See the SHEAR manual here: (https://github.com/jbpease/shear/blob/master/shear.pdf)
Python 3.x (recommend) or 2.7.x
Optional, but strongly recommended:
Scythe (any version, https://github.com/vsbuffalo/scythe)
This file is part of shear.
shear is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as publihed by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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