[mira_talk] Re: two different contig with same sequence

  • From: Gonzalo Greif <gonzalo.greif@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:08:42 -0200

I will see in more details the two contig, but probably the answer resolve
my question,
so, thank you very much
Gonzalo

2009/11/30 Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Montag 30 November 2009 Gonzalo Greif wrote:
> > I take two different consensus contigs from mira, and i perform the
> > alignement with sanger sequence using blast, and the match is 99% or
> > something like this.
>
> Then MIRA decided that these were different ESTs.
>
> Imagine this simple case: a gene has two slightly different alleles and
> you've
> sequenced this:
>
> A1-1  ...........T...........
> A1-2  ...........T...........
> A1-3  ...........T...........
> A1-4  ...........T...........
> A1-5  ...........T...........
> A2-1  ...........G...........
> A2-2  ...........G...........
> A2-3  ...........G...........
> A2-4  ...........G...........
>
> MIRA will recognise that there's enough evidence for a T and also enough
> evidence for a G at that position and create two contigs, one containing
> the
> "T" allel, one the "G". The consensus will be >99% identical, but not 100%.
>
> From there on, you can build more complicated cases but I'll leave it to
> anyones imagination what kind of other cases can arise (especially funny
> when
> starting to take sequencing errors into account *sigh*).
>
> Does this answer your question?
>
> Regards,
>  Bastien
>
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