Dear Bastien and Mira ppl, I'm assemblying with solexa (100bp, paired) a 5,6 Mb genome, with 200x coverage. My problem is that all the copies of the ribosomal genes (16S, 23S, 5S) get assembled together in one single contig. Based on reference I think I should have 8 ribosomal operons, which agrees with the 8fold coverage of the "all the ribosomal sequences mashed together" contig. I have been thinking about possible solutions to this, but I then realized other people must have had the same issue, so why lose my mind when I can stand on the shoulder of giants? Thanks everybody Davide