Hi All, Few basic beginner's questions: 1. Can anyone please tell me, what are the * character in padded file and how is it going to affect the alignment. Do we consider the padded file or the unpadded file? 2. The best way to assemble a transcriptome data? I have used the following command to assemble the 454 reads: mira-3.0.0 mira --project=test --job=denovo,genome,draft,454 454_SETTINGS -LR:mxti=no -FN:fai=all_454_female_male.fna -FN:fqui=male_female.qual but later I realized that it was a transcriptome data, can anyone help me out in changing the parameters so that I can assemble the transcrpitome data. Many thanks Shab