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Skewer

Skewer

Skewer is a tool to trim sequence adapters of Illumina paired-end sequencing data.

Topic

RNA-Seq; Sequence assembly; Sequencing

Details

  • Operation: Read pre-processing; Primer removal; Read mapping; Sequence trimming
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface
  • Language: C++
  • Operating system: Linux
  • License: Other
  • Cost: -
  • Version name: 0.2.2
  • Maturity: Stable
  • Credit: The National Key Technology R&D Program of China, the Basic Scientific Research Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, the Special Fund of CAIQ for Pest Identification and Monitoring.
  • Contact: Hongshan Jiang hongshan.jiang _at_ gmail.com | Shuifang Zhu zhushf _at_ netchina.com.cn
  • Collection: -

Publications

Jiang H, Lei R, Ding SW, Zhu S "Skewer: a fast and accurate adapter trimmer for next-generation sequencing paired-end reads." BMC Bioinformatics 2014 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-182
PMID: 24925680
PMCID: PMC4074385


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