On Apr 24, 2012, at 21:25 , Chauhan, Archana wrote: > I am trying to assemble my 454 upaired and the paired reads. I used the > following command to direct the output to a directory “$TMPDIR”. This > directory is guaranteed to use a local hard drive. > “mira --project=HK44 --job=denovo,genome,accurate,454, -DI:$TMPDIR > >&log_assembly” > > and got the following error: I'm astonished the parameter parser didn't cry out loud, because the above contains an error. What you want is mira --project=HK44 --job=denovo,genome,accurate,454, -DI:trt=$TMPDIR >&log_assembly > I than ran the following command (not recomended) to make mira run: > “mira --project=HK44 --job=denovo,genome,accurate,454, -MI:sonfs=no > >&log_assembly” > > And I got the following error: > "Could not open FASTQ file 'HK44_in.454.fastq'. Is it present? Is it > readable? Did you want to load your data in another format?" > > My data files look ok . Below is the snapshots of my qual and fasta files: Well, you provide FASTA and FASTA quality files, but MIRA wanted to load FASTQ. This will clash. Solution: use "-Q" in "sff_extract" to create FASTQ files. B.