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Biopiece: read_ace

Description

read_ace extracts reads from ACE files containing assembled reads. Padding information are currently not included, and reads overlapping the contig ends are skipped. The resulting records look like this:

STRAND: +
Q_ID: F1N2JB301C649T
ALIGN: 2:A>-,50:A>-
S_ID: contig00001
S_BEG: 19171
S_END: 19238
---

The ALIGN field contains alignment descriptors that allows you to recreate the read sequence from the original contig. Read more about this in the description of the KISS format:

http://code.google.com/p/biopieces/wiki/KissFormat

For more about the ACE format:

http://bozeman.mbt.washington.edu/consed/distributions/README.14.0.txt

Usage

read_ace [options] -i <ACE file(s)>

Options

[-?          | --help]               #  Print full usage description.
[-i <files!> | --data_in=<files!>]   #  Comma separated list of files or glob expression to read.
[-n <uint>   | --num=<uint>]         #  Limit number of records to read.
[-I <file>   | --stream_in=<file!>]  #  Read input stream from file  -  Default=STDIN
[-O <file>   | --stream_out=<file>]  #  Write output stream to file  -  Default=STDOUT
[-v          | --verbose]            #  Verbose output.

Examples

To read all ACE entries from a file:

read_ace -i test.ace

To read in only 10 records from a ACE file:

read_ace -n 10 -i test.ace

To read all ACE entries from multiple files:

read_ace -i test1.ace,test2.ace

To read ACE entries from multiple files using a glob expression:

read_ace -i '*.ace'

See also

Author

Martin Asser Hansen - Copyright (C) - All rights reserved.

[email protected]

December 2009

License

GNU General Public License version 2

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Help

read_ace is part of the Biopieces framework.

http://www.biopieces.org

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