On 04 Feb 2014, at 3:23 , Austen Chen <cyausten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > […] 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=.’ I’m not sure I I’m interpreting this right, but I’m going to assume you made a mapping, imported that into gap4, made some edits/finishing there and then exported the tag positions from within gap4. Am I right? > […] > 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) If yes, then this does not work (as you experienced) because gap4 has no notion of “reference sequence”. Way out: convert the gap4 database back to CAF, then use “miraconvert -t cstats” to recreate info files like MIRA gives at the end of a sequencing run. There you can use the “unpadded” positions. At least I hope so. If not, converting to SAM and using the positions there might help. > […] > 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. Sending a mail to the MIRA talk list at 03:23 MET, not getting a response and then sending me a mail to my private address at 06:14 MET usually is not helpful. Just saying. B.