On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:09 PM, John Nash <john.he.nash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear mira users, > > I just received some sff files from our sequence facility, so dutifully, I > ran sff_extract and produced a nice fastq / xml file set ready for MIRA. > > MIRA crashed with a "Sanity check of read '<insert read name here>' > failed" error. I went and looked at the failed sequence and sure enough, it > was crap. So I fired up emacs and removed the offending entry, and yes, it > happened again. > > I don't particularly want to remove bad sequences using the "fail by > crashing mira" followed by "edit using emacs" approach. Before I go and try > and write code to examine and filter out bad fastq data, is there something > obvious out there that I could use? > > Thanks > John What were the failing sequences? Perhaps there is something we can suggest after seeing them and in what way they are bad. Peter -- You have received this mail because you are subscribed to the mira_talk mailing list. For information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html