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Trimmomatic

Trimmomatic is capable of performing a variety of trimming tasks for illumina generated paired-end and single end data. If no thread count is provided it is determined automatically. The available commands include:

CommandDescription
illuminaclipcut adapter and other illumina-specific sequences from the read
slidingwindowperform a sliding window trimming, cutting once the average quality within the window falls below a threshold
leadingcut bases off the start of a read, if below a threshold quality
trailingcut bases off the end of a read, if below a threshold quality
cropcut the read to a specified length
headcropcut the specified number of bases from the start of the read
minlendrop the read if its below a specified length
tophred33convert quality scores to phred-33
tophred64convert quality scores to phred-66

For additional information please see the documentation

ml biocontainers trimmomatic
trimmomatic -threads 20 -phred33 -trimlog log.txt input.fa output.fa

Parallel Capabilities: Some commands have Multithreading options supported. Please see documentation.