Hi Sonia, I can't speak to all of you questions, but I believe I the reason your Gap5 database doesn't have MIRA tags is because the ACE specification doesn't keep those tags. I wish could give you a solution, but I can at least provide an explanation. Best wishes! - Jeremiah On Fri 07/09/10 10:40 AM , Sònia Casillas sonia.casillas@xxxxxxx sent: > Hi, > > I'm trying to visualize a MIRA assembly with Gap4 and Gap5 (Staden > Package version 2.0.0b6). However I have the following problems even > after using convert_project to exclude contigs shorter than 500 bases > and with a coverage smaller than 1/3 the average coverage: > > - For Gap4, I use the program caf2gap (from CAFTOOLS version 2.0.2) to > convert the MIRA CAF assembly into a Gap4 database, but I get the error > "!! FATAL ERROR: system error 12 Cannot allocate memory !! Memory > allocation failure when requesting -2147483648 bytes Aborted". I have > a hybrid 454/Sanger assembly of 4,007,215 reads, and work in an Ubuntu > 64bits Server with 64 GiB RAM. RAM is not completely used when I get the > error. > > - For Gap5, I use the ACE file from MIRA to create the Gap5 database > using tg_index, but Gap5 doesn't display any MIRA tags :-( Now I'm > trying to convert the CAF file from MIRA to BAF using the script > caf2baf.pl from the Staden Package with the idea to create the Gap5 > database from the BAF file and see if it displays MIRA tags, but it's > been running for more than one day now... > > Do you have any idea? Maybe run again MIRA and ask MIRA to output the > assembly in gap4da format? > > Now I have to apologize for asking something a bit out of this list, but > have any of you been able to compile BAMBUS in an Ubuntu 10.04? I can't > manage to compile it either in 32 or a 64 bits, even when changing the > files in the manual distributed with MIRA, and the AMOS mailing list is > not responding at all. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you very much in advance, and thanks a lot Bastien for your > response to my first question in this mailing list. > > Best regards, > Sònia > > > > -- > 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 > > > > -- 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