[mira_talk] Re: anothers letters in assemblies

  • From: Lionel Guy <guy.lionel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 15:09:49 +0200

They are ambiguous consensus base calls, IUPAC-coded (see table 1 in 
http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iubmb/misc/naseq.html)
For example, S stands for "strong" (G or C), Y for pYrimidine, M for aMino (A or C), K for Keto (G or T), etc...

On 8 Jul 2010, at 14:57 , Laurent MANCHON wrote:

--Hello

why i obtain assemblies with letters other than ATGC:

CSTASAYCGGAAGAGCTCGTATGCGGTCTTCTGTTKGAAMMMAM*AG


what does it mean S,M,K, Y???

Laurent --


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