Hi Bastien, we have done 2 mapping aseemblies (A1 and A3) using a common bacterial reference, and now we need to find regions that are missing in either strain or common to both A1 and A3. we used a tag called MCVc to locate missing regions using Gap4. we were able to find all these missing regions in each strain and each missing region was given as a position (see below). For A1 position 165410 length 404 type MCVc comment 'gff3str=.' For A3 position 165209 length 827 type MCVc comment 'gff3str=.' but then we realised these positions are given in reference to each contig A1 and A3, not in reference to the common reference strain. see below (A1-top, A3-bottom) [image: Inline image 1] because these positions are in relation to their own contigs, it's impossible to compare A1 and A3 to see if they have common missing regions. It would be straightforward if the positions are given in reference to the reference strain, then common missing regions would have the same coordinates. We need to get this work done urgently so any advice you could give us on the best way to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated. thank you so much in advance Austen