[mira_talk] Re: Using MIRA to join contigs with 454 reads and/or map to Reference

  • From: Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:20:53 +0200

On Thursday 07 April 2011 04:06:55 Rob Good wrote:
> I've just used SOAPdenovo to generate an initial denovo assembly of a
> Drosophila melanogaster paired end Illumina run.
> This has generated 60,000 contigs from 32 to 40000 bp.

Oh dear ... this is going to be such a mess.

> Can I :
> 1. Use MIRA to map these to a reference assembly

MIRA has a size cap of 15 to 20k per "read", so you will need to split longer 
contigs.

> 2. Use MIRA to joins these contains together with some 454 reads

Same here: 15 to 20kb max as sequence size.

Apart from that: I think it should work.

B.

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