> From: Sharmista Saha > [...] The questions you've been asking during the past 10 days are ... a bit troubling. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that you are an utter novice both in Unix and in sequence assembly. Right? Please don't take offense as this is no judgement and shouldn't be a hindrance to ask questions (we've all been through that stage), but simply an observation. A valuation however is that you seem to be pretty reluctant to read the available documentation, which - please bear with me if I sound a little bit peeved - took considerable time and effort to write, trying to be as simple and concise as possible for a subject as difficult as sequence assembly. They're not perfect, I know, but should help out in 95% of the cases. Now to your specific question: what you were looking at was the log of the assembly, not the results. The log is something a program dumps out so that in case of a problem in the program, one can find out what happened. What you want are the results. As described in the section "Looking at results" of the mira usage manual, you will find the results after the assembly in subdirectories, namely "<projectname>_d_info" with all kind of files with statistics (and other numbers) and "<projectname>_d_results" with result files in different formats, ready to be used with other programs. Have a look at these. Now, I would really suggest that you take yourself a cup of tea or two (or coffee or whatever), relax and completely read through "mira usage" manual and the "how to use with Solexa" manual. Afterwards, reading through the main manual would certainly also tell you a lot of things not mentioned in the other, simpler and more focussed, manuals. Once you are through, read them again. I know that it takes some time upfront, but it quickly pays off afterwards when it saves you tons of time and frustration. Furthermore, if it would be possible for you to find in your surrounding someone a bit more experienced, this also could be beneficial for quickly finding where you have problems in understanding the subject. Sitting down with two people in front of a screen is one of the best ways to find out about new things. Regards, Bastien -- You have received this mail because you are subscribed to the mira_talk mailing list. For information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html