On 04 Feb 2014, at 14:22 , Austen Chen <cyausten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > […] > Presumably A1 and A3 would have a common missing region from 165410-165814, > but this is not the case as each missing position in A1 and A3 is not > referring to the same position in relation to the reference sequence, and > hope i have explained it here clearly. it looks like i am able to find > missing coverage in each strain but unable to find common missing coverage > between these 2 strains, and that's why I was asking you for help if my > interpretation was correct and you could give me some suggestions on how to > tackle this problem. As I wrote: convert the gap4 database (with your edits) back to CAF, then use "miraconvert -t cstats” to recreate some standard info files of MIRA, but using that new CAF file. You should get a new info file about consensus tags, which contains also the MCVc tags, have a look at that file. Though I’m not sure whether these positions would be really wrt to the reference, I need to check. Anyway, converting to SAM *should” give you positions which are based on the reference (there is no other way), you’d just need to parse out the tags out of the SAM. HTH, B.