Hi Bastien et al, I'm starting to get more paired end data, and would like to be able look at this information in alignment viewers. What MIRA output file format would you recommend for this? Some file formats (like ACE) do not store the pair information explicitly - so the viewer would have to resort to inferring pairs based on the read names (messy!), and there is no way to get the expected separation. I've been reading the MIRA Assembly Format (MAF) document, http://mira-assembler.sourceforge.net/docs/mira_maf.html and it looks like the TN and DI lines are used to record pairings, plus the TF and TT lines give information about the separation. That's great, but I don't know of any alignment viewing tools which support MAF directly. I am familiar with the SAM/BAM format which does have explicit support for paired reads - although in MAF terms it only stores the template name (the TN line in MAF) and forward/reverse read information (DI line in MAF, part of the flag in SAM/BAM), while the original read name (RD) is lost. To me it would be great for MIRA to offer SAM/BAM output, since these are widely supported in alignment viewing software. Note that SAM/BAM files do not store the contig sequences, just a reference to the contig names which are usually held in an accompanying (unpadded) FASTA file. http://samtools.sourceforge.net/SAM1.pdf I think might be possible to write a MAF to SAM conversion tool... (which can then be turned into BAM easily). Bastien - Is SAM (or even BAM) output something you are thinking about supporting directly in MIRA? Thanks, Peter -- You have received this mail because you are subscribed to the mira_talk mailing list. For information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html