> On June 5, 2014 at 1:35 PM "hoshiga.f.aa" <hoshiga.f.aa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried to assemble the data of IonTorrent whole genome sequencing of E.coli > O104:H4 str.LB226692 obtained from SRA by MIRA. > SRA file was converted to fastq by SRA Toolkit(fastq-dump). > [...] > And I got following error message. > > > DNA template SRR254209, read SRR254209.2: template segment not recognised. > DNA template SRR254209, read SRR254209.1: template segment not recognised. > Reads SRR254209.2 and SRR254209.1 have the same template segments. > 3 DNA template SRR254209 has more than two reads, template info not used. > [...] > ******************************************************************************** > * Problems found with the template data, see output log for more info. This * > * points some serious problem either with read naming (like unrecognised read > * > * naming scheme) or broken template information, please fix your input files! > * > * Or switch off this warning with -NW:ctp=no (but you'll do this at own risk!) > * > ******************************************************************************** > > I couldn't understand what this messages means and what is going on. > > When I used MIRA to assemble NGS data of phage genome obtained from our lab > previously, MIRA worked totally fine. > So I think input data may be problematic, but I can't fix it. The problem indeed is the read naming as enforced by the SRA: it does not adhere to any other naming scheme. I think you may have a way out by using the "-F" ("--origfmt") of fastq-dump from the SRA toolkit. Hope that helps, Bastien