Hi all, I am performing a assemble of 454 data with clipping the cloning vector sequences using SSAHA2 or SMALT. SSAHA2 and SMALT certainly recognized vector regions in each 454 read sequences. The Mira assembly process was done completely without any error. But the vector sequence were still remained in assembles; Checked by SSAHA2 and BLAST search. The yielded contigs contain the vector sequences at the (one or both) terminal of them and sometimes at the middle of contigs (chimera?). Has anyone had a similar problems? Is there a any way to correct the problem? [ssaha2] ssaha2 -output ssaha2 -kmer 8 -skip 1 -seeds 1 -score 12 -cmatch 9 -ckmer 6 /path/where/the/vector/data/resides/vector.fasta bchoc_in.sanger.fasta > <projectname>_ssaha2vectorscreen_in.txt [SMALT 0.4.3] smalt index -k 7 -s 1 idx vector.fasta smalt map -f ssaha -d -1 -m 7 idx seqs.fasta > seqs.ssaha_out [Mira 3.2.1] mira -project=bchoc -job=denovo,genome,normal,sanger -fasta 454_SETTINGS -CL:msvs=yes “Done merging SSAHA2 vector screen data” was shown in log when SSAHA2 and SMALT file (<projectname>_ssaha2vectorscreen_in.txt) were used. Thanks, Hikaru