On 21 May 2014, at 21:07 , Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > […] > Would *_contigstats.txt contain one more column with the sequencing > technology abbreviated, things > would have been even easier. I know. But then again some people would want to have it not by sequencing tech, but by readgroup … and the format of the contigstats would start to become fluid instead of fixed. Not good. On the other hand: for things like this one should really parse the MAF file. It’s practically developed for easy processing :-) B.