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+Cutadapt: trim adapters from high-throughput sequencing reads
+
+Cutadapt finds and removes adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails
+and other types of unwanted sequence from your high-throughput
+sequencing reads.
+
+Cleaning your data in this way is often required: Reads from small-RNA
+sequencing contain the 3’ sequencing adapter because the read is
+longer than the molecule that is sequenced. Amplicon reads start with
+a primer sequence. Poly-A tails are useful for pulling out RNA from
+your sample, but often you don’t want them to be in your reads.
+
+Cutadapt helps with these trimming tasks by finding the adapter or
+primer sequences in an error-tolerant way. It can also modify and
+filter reads in various ways. Adapter sequences can contain IUPAC
+wildcard characters. Also, paired-end reads and even colorspace data
+is supported. If you want, you can also just demultiplex your input
+data, without removing adapter sequences at all.
+
+Cutadapt comes with an extensive suite of automated tests and is
+available under the terms of the MIT license.
+
+If you use cutadapt, please cite:
+Marcel Martin. Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from high-throughput
+sequencing reads. EMBnet.journal, 17(1):10-12, May 2011. DOI:
+http://dx.doi.org/10.14806/ej.17.1.200