On Sunday, July 24, 2011, Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 22 July 2011 12:08:57 Peter Cock wrote: > >> Hi Bastien, >> >> I'm just updating my MAF to SAM converter: >> https://github.com/peterjc/maf2sam >> >> I see there is a new BC line type in the read blocks from MIRA 3.4 rc2 >> (which I am for now ignoring). Could you add this to the file format docs >> please? http://mira-assembler.sourceforge.net/docs/chap_maf_part.html > > BaseCaller ... you probably can safely ignore that one. Understood. > Docs are updated, roll-out in next release. > Great. > Thanks for making me aware. > > B. No problem. > > PS: at some time there will be a successor of MAF ... very > similar to the current format, but named differently (to > disambiguates to the already existing MultipleAlignmentFormat > which I did not check for name collision) and with support of > multiple libraries / read groups and a few other goodies. The > current MAF will die, though parsers for the successor will > need very little change (for good reason :-) > OK, thanks for the advance notice. Peter