On Donnerstag 22 Juli 2010 Isabel Queirós Neves wrote: > I would like to know if the removal of reads that are exactly the same > before the assembly will negatively influence MIRA's 'behaviour'? Yes. Two (or more) identical reads would form a contig. Leaving only one read would make a singlet out of it. > reading the manual I somehow got the impression that MIRA uses the > repeats to tag the singlets, for example. No, this does not happen. > But I read on MIRA talk that reads could be clustered using wcdest, i > am not sure if this is a go approach to reduce the amount of reads I > have. Clustering reads before assembly might not be the best approach. Never tried it, but I have my doubts. What's the "amount" of reads you're talking of? 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