Given a FASTQ file and a list of adapter sequences, guessadapt simply counts the number of occurences of each adapter and returns sorted list of counts. That's it!
$ guessadapt --help
usage: guessadapt [-h] [--limit LIMIT] [--adapters ADAPTERS] fastq
positional arguments:
fastq path to input FASTQ file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--limit LIMIT, -n LIMIT
maximal number of reads to consider
--adapters ADAPTERS, -a ADAPTERS
commma-separated list of adapters (default:
AGATCGGAAGAGC,TGGAATTCTCGG,CTGTCTCTTATA)
The recommended way to install guessadapt is by using conda:
$ conda install -c micknudsen guessadapt