On Apr 14, 2012, at 23:33 , Alexis Blanchet-Cohen wrote: > Will MIRA understand the new format? The 3.4 series does not. If you are feeling adventurous, give the 3.9.0 development version a try: this one does. > Do I have to convert the new format to the old format for MIRA to distinguish > the paired end reads? Yes. > If so, what is the sed command to do this? I wrote earlier "this is left as an exercise to the reader." Oh well :-) Try sed 's/^@\(.+\) \(.\)/@\1\/\2 \2/' infile >outfile Should work. B. -- 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