On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > After quickly browsing the Maq's user manual, I get the feeling that > its main feature is not assembly (in particular, it can not compute > de novo assemblies).
Yes, but can it complete a dense enough map so that it's an assembly? [De novo assembly is sort of a misnomer too, as you can't do accurate assembly without a pre-existing map anyway, but I digress.] > How about "maps short polymorphic reads to reference biological sequences". > > For me, "read"(s) is an important keyword that I would like to keep > in the description if we do not use the expansion of the acronym > that is used to name the package. Right, but reads of what? Consider: "maps short fixed-legth polymporphic DNA sequence reads to reference sequences" Don Armstrong -- America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions. -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]