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bio-read-qc-quality-filtering

Maintainer FreedomIntelligence · Last updated April 1, 2026

Filter reads by quality scores, length, and N content using Trimmomatic and fastp. Apply sliding window trimming, remove low-quality bases from read ends, and discard reads below thresholds. Use when reads have poor quality tails or require minimum quality for downstream analysis.

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Original source

FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills

https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills/tree/main/skills/bio-read-qc-quality-filtering

Maintainer
FreedomIntelligence
License
MIT
Last updated
April 1, 2026

Skill Snapshot

Key Details From SKILL.md

2 min

Key Notes

  • CLI: trimmomatic PE with SLIDINGWINDOW and MINLEN options.
  • CLI: fastp --qualified_quality_phred 20 --length_required 50.
  • Trim low-quality bases and filter reads using Trimmomatic sliding window or fastp quality filtering.
  • Filter reads by quality" → Remove low-quality bases and discard reads below quality/length thresholds. CLI: trimmomatic PE with SLIDINGWINDOW and MINLEN options CLI: fastp --qualified_quality_phred 20 --length_required 50.
  • trimmomatic SE input.fq output.fq \ SLIDINGWINDOW:4:20 MINLEN:36.

Source Doc

Excerpt From SKILL.md

Trimmomatic Operations

OperationSyntaxDescription
LEADINGLEADING:QRemove leading bases below quality Q
TRAILINGTRAILING:QRemove trailing bases below quality Q
SLIDINGWINDOWSLIDINGWINDOW:W:QCut when W-bp window average < Q
MINLENMINLEN:LDiscard reads shorter than L
CROPCROP:LCut read to max length L
HEADCROPHEADCROP:NRemove first N bases
AVGQUALAVGQUAL:QDrop read if average quality < Q
MAXINFOMAXINFO:L:SBalance length and quality
TOPHRED33TOPHRED33Convert to Phred33 encoding
TOPHRED64TOPHRED64Convert to Phred64 encoding

Aggressive 3' trimming

trimmomatic SE input.fq output.fq
TRAILING:20 SLIDINGWINDOW:4:20 MINLEN:36

Trim both ends, strict filtering

trimmomatic SE input.fq output.fq
LEADING:10 TRAILING:10 SLIDINGWINDOW:4:25 MINLEN:50

Use cases

  • Use when reads have poor quality tails or require minimum quality for downstream analysis.

Not for

  • Do not rely on this catalog entry alone for installation or maintenance details.

Upstream Related Skills

  • adapter-trimming - Remove adapters before quality filtering
  • quality-reports - Check quality before/after filtering
  • fastp-workflow - All-in-one preprocessing

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