[mira_talk] Re: Removing a duplicate entry from a CAF file

  • From: John Nash <john.he.nash@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:55:55 -0400

On 2011-10-13, at 3:46 PM, John Nash wrote:

> After sending me SIX genomes in casava 1.8 format, it appears that the 
> SEVENTH genome came in the OLD format (as evidenced by the "/2" and "/1" at 
> the ends of the lines of the headers).  Of course, I didn't check and just 
> popped the new sequence in the pipeline.  My converter happily but 
> incorrectly converted the headers - thus removing the "/1" and "/2" at the 
> ends. That resulted in the error that convert_project threw when I was 
> trimming the CAF file to decent sized contigs.  The sequence assembly looks 
> really weird!
> 
> Moral: Check your fastq formatted sequences EVERY time after downloading from 
> the sequence provider.

Upon further checking, the sequencing centre appears to have converted the file 
header itself because it uses the new style flow-cell IDs and Sanger offsets 
for quality.  Hmmmmm.

Check your raw data mes ami(e)s.

John



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