title: FastUniq: a fast de novo duplicates removal tool for paired short reads.
abstract: The presence of duplicates introduced by PCR amplification is a major issue in paired short reads from next-generation sequencing platforms. These duplicates might have a serious impact on research applications, such as scaffolding in whole-genome sequencing and discovering large-scale genome variations, and are usually removed. We present FastUniq as a fast de novo tool for removal of duplicates in paired short reads. FastUniq identifies duplicates by comparing sequences between read pairs and does not require complete genome sequences as prerequisites. FastUniq is capable of simultaneously handling reads with different lengths and results in highly efficient running time, which increases linearly at an average speed of 87 million reads per 10 minutes. FastUniq is freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastuniq/.
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Breeding of Endangered Medicinal Materials, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Haibin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Xiaohui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Jingyuan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Guangrui
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Jinhui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shilin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software