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Now demultiplex the reads. We will do this with process_radtags from the packages STACKS.

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#look at the set of barcodes included for our samples
less barcodes_Lib1.tsv 


#make a directory to put the resulting sample fastq files into
mkdir sample_fastqs
 
#look at the documentation for process_radtags
./process_radtags -h
  
#execute the command to process the rad data
./process_radtags -i 'fastq' -1 Lib01_R1.fastq -2 Lib01_R2.fastq -o ./sample_fastqs/ -b barcodes_Lib1.tsv --inline_index -e 'nlaIII' -r --disable_rad_check

BFrom our barcode file, we expected to have four barcoded samples in our library.

Did we get all of our samples back?

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titlesolution
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cd sample_fastqs/


#look at size of our output files
ls -lh *.fq


#remove the empty *.rem.* files
rm *.rem.*


#check the number of paired end files we have
ls *.1.fq | wc -l
ls *.2.fq | wc -l


#Are the paired end files for each sample the same size?
wc -l *.fq