2011/3/15 Leonor Palmeira <mlpalmeira@xxxxxxxxx> > [...] Well, from my own point of view, for a whole BAC 454 sequencing, I > prefer to assemble the sequence containing the BAC as a whole, and then > excise the BAC from the assembly. This allows me to make sure the assembly > ran well, including around the BAC. I don't see the necessity for vector > clipping the reads in this particular case. > This may work if you have one library per BAC. But in my case, we have a pool of fosmids (or bacs or whatever clone constructs). Assembling these without prior vector removal might lead to strange results. Sven