[mira_talk] Re: MIRA->Some good editor

  • From: Nestor Zaburannyi <nestor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Bastien Chevreux <mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:43:41 +0200

> On Jul 15, 2011, at 18:03 , Nestor Zaburannyi wrote:
>> Why is .gap4da output not recommended nor created anymore? From the first 
>> day of my MIRA usage, i can not convert my projects into Gap4, because of 

>> !! FATAL ERROR: system error 12 Cannot allocate memory
>> !! Memory allocation failure when requesting -2147483648 bytes

> Uh oh ... you must have quite some large result projects.

> You have exactly 2.5 options left I think:
> 0.5: You write a bug report to the authors of caf2gap (you might want to do 
> that anyway)

If only i could find them :)

> 1.5: split the MIRA result into smaller parts to be worked on individually in 
> gap4. You might for example want to try the "-s" option of convert_project to 
> split by contigs:

I will try that one.

>    convert_project -f maf -t caf -s mira_output.maf mysplit
> 2.5: you scrap gap4 and use gap5. To input the project into gap5 use:
>    tg_index -C mira_out.caf 
>    where tg_index is a tool supplied by the gap5 package.

This always works, but gap5 lacks many of the gap4 features.

>> Also, convert_project for "-t gap4da" is not available nowadays, too?

> In convert_project, it's called "-t exp". 

> WARNING WARNING WARNING RED ALERT WARNING WARNING WARNING

> Do not do that with projects containing more than a couple of hundred 
> thousand reads. That format implies that in a single directory, one file is 
> created on disk for each and every read ... and your filesystem will not like 
> that.

> You. Have. Been. Warned ;-)

> B.


Regards
Nestor


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