Well sffinfo worked. I am guessing it is a newer version or something. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Betreff: [mira_talk] Re: Mira results much worse than newbler > > Maybe this is the only one but I had a bear of a time getting this > > one to work, and I expected that it wasn't a bug but just how sff_extract > worked. > > The SRA sample SRR054580 demonstrates it though. > > A specific SRA ... now we're getting somewhere. > > > Since it was in the SRA I couldn't contact the sequence provider, > evidently > > using minleft clip does exactly that. However going back and trying it > on > > other sequences it does indeed seem to do exactly the same as sffinfo > when it works. > > It's not "when" sff_extract works ... when extracting non-paired sequences > it *always* works like sffinfo. > > > > ******************************************************************************** > > WARNING: weird sequences in file SRR054580.sff > > After applying left clips, 513937 sequences (=57%) start with these > bases: > > A > > > > This does not look sane. > > ... > > This warning message is courtesy of sff_extract: the SFF is very probably > broken. sff_extract caught that and gave you a warning, which, by the way, > you do not get in sffinfo. The resulting FASTA file both from sffinfo and > sff_extract are still exactly the same. > > B. > >