Greeting everyone,

Would anyone have an idea if some tool exists that sorts (and  
potentially reverse complements) a maf file based on chromosomal  
coordinates of the unsorted reference species?

Cheers,

Martin

On 12/08/2010, at 11:48 AM, Martin A. Smith wrote:

> G'day Jennifer,
>
> Thanks for your consideration. I am familiar with mafOrder; it  
> changes the order of species in the alignments. To my knowledge it  
> does not sort and, when required, reverse complement the output. You  
> see, I would like to use the re-ordered maf file as input for  
> hgLoadMaf, which requires a sorted (i.e. corectly ordered) maf file  
> in + orientation as input.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
>
> On 11/08/2010, at 4:57 AM, Jennifer Jackson wrote:
>
>> Hello Martin,
>>
>> There is a utility in the kent source tree that you can use to re- 
>> order a maf file:
>>
>> $ mafOrder
>> mafOrder - order components within a maf file
>> usage:
>>  mafOrder mafIn order.lst mafOut
>> where order.lst has one species per line
>>
>> How to get the kent source tree:
>> http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#source_downloads
>>
>> Please feel free to contact the mailing list support team again if  
>> you would like more assistance.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Jen
>> UCSC Genome Browser Support
>>
>> On 8/10/10 12:04 AM, Martin A. Smith wrote:
>>> Esteemed colleagues,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if there is an existing tool that sorts a group of  
>>> maf
>>> blocks with respect to some specie's coordinates. In other words, I
>>> would like to reorder a MSA with reference species X to reference
>>> species Y and upload it as a custom track for database Y.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Martin Smith
>>> PhD Student
>>> Institute for Molecular Bioscience
>>> University of Queensland
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