On Saturday, June 25, 2011, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. A collaborator sent me some short reads in GZ format for 2 > bacterial genomes.
Files names something.gz are compressed, a bit like the .zip format used on windows. If it ends with .tar.gz (or the short hand .tgz) then you have a collection of files (Unix tool tar), which have then been compressed (with gzip or a similar tool). What operating system do you have? Even on Windows you can deal with these files. > I have NO IDEA how to process this data or convert it. Any help or utilies > out there ? If you're interested in collaborating on a publication , let me > know. We can get you're name on it. And it won't be much work for those > of you that know about contig assembly..... > > For me, its out of my league, im a protein guy.... > [This seems rather tangential to BioJava and I don't think this mailing list is the best place to discuss this.] That sounds like it will be tough/hard. If you can find a local team or bioinformatician working with NextGen sequencing I would help. Try asking your sequencing center/provider if they have any kind local sequencing group. See also http://seqanswers.com Good luck, Peter _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
