[mira_talk] MIRA alignment format (MAF), new BC lines in read blocks

  • From: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:56:02 +0100

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

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