That is what I thought, but I can't seem to find much assembly information for this particular read in step2. It is in the step2_reads.caf file, but there are no reads associated with it, to go back to step1. I was expecting it to be in the step2_strainname directory, but it isn't in any of the caf, fasta, or various info files either. Sincerely yours, Robin Kramer On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 22:30:10 Robin Kramer wrote: > > > I am trying to trace an assembled contig back through the strain analysis > > > pipeline. > > > > > > When I convert the step3 assembly to an ace file and view it, I find a > > > contig that is supposedly from one of the strains, but when I look in the > > > corresponding strain's sequence and caf file in its step2 directory, I > > > don't find a contig with that name, though in the step2_straindata_in.txt > > > the name is there, and when I convert the step2_reads.caf to a fasta > file, > > > the contig is there, but step2_reads.caf is incomplete, so I can't do > much > > > with it. > > > > > > Is it possible to trace the reads in an assembly through the > miraSearchEST > > > pipeline step1 through step3? > > Hmmm ... yes. Though what you describe lets me wonder a bit. > > Tracing a read in step 1 & 2 is trivial. It's the jump to step 3 which > makes things a bit more complicated, but not much (I hope). Basically, > taking the name of the contig of step2, you should find it in step3 as > "read". Isn't this the case for your data? > > B. > >