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BBTools FAQ and Support Forums

What does BB stand for in BBTools?

BB stands for Bestus Bioinformaticus.

Where can I go for support for BBTools if I have questions or problems?

SEQanswers – next generation sequencing community forum

Links to other BBTools forum threads:

BBSplit: Binning reads based on mapping to multiple references at once

BBDuk and Seal: Decontamination, filtering, adapter-trimming, kmer-masking, and alignment-free expression quantification

BBNorm: Normalization, error-correction, kmer frequency histograms, and genome size estimation

BBMerge: Paired read overlap merging and insert size calculation

Reformat: Read reformatting, deinterleaving, subsampling, etc

CalcUniquenesses: Library uniqueness/saturation plots

RemoveHuman: Filtering out reads from human, or some other specific organism, with zero false positives removals

Repair: Re-pairing reads that got out of order, based on their names

CalcTrueQuality: Recalibrating quality scores of reads

Tadpole: Assembler, error-correction, read extension

KmerCompressor: Kmer set generation and set operations

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