Good Morning Davide: Use faSize on the fasta file. The number of bytes is bloated because of the line end characters.
--Hiram Davide Cittaro wrote: > Dear all, > I have some doubts about chromosome sizes in available genomes. Just > as example chromosome 1 of mouse (mm9) is 197195432 bp long... > twoBitInfo on mm9.2bit says the same: > > chr1 197195432 > > On the otherside, the fasta file available in downloads sections > (chr1.fa.gz) is 201011362 characters long. Since I'm using the fasta > file for some local alignments, I wonder what I am missing (because > I'm evidently missing something). > > d _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
