Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

Bolger et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69a018ef7a2cf36087863a9d — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu170

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