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  • mummer plot unable to parse alignment file

    Hello,

    I am currently trying to make a dotplot in order to compare the sequence similarity between a reference genome and an early stage reference genome that my own lab is constructing. The software I am using to do this is called "mummer".

    To get an initial feel for how the mummer software works, I aligned one chromosome of the reference genome to itself since this should in theory produce a perfect diagonal line.

    The code I used for this was:
    mummer Chromosome1.fasta Chromosome1.fasta > Chromosome1.mums

    Then to create a dotplot of this alignment file I used the following code:
    mummerplot -postscript -p OUTPUT_plot Chromosome1.mums

    This code created the perfectly diagonal line dot plot as predicted.

    My issue is that when I try to use the same code to align two different sequences, mummerplot is not able to parse the alignment file.

    Here is the code I am using:
    mummer Chromosome1.fasta Scaffold1.fasta >Chrom1_v_Scaff1.mums
    mummerplot -postscript -p OUTPUT_plot Chrom1_v_Scaff1.mums

    The following error appears every time I align two different sequences and try to plot the alignment:
    gnuplot 5.2 patchlevel 7
    Reading mummer file Chrom1_v_Scaff1.mums (use mummer -c)
    ERROR: Could not parse Chrom1_v_Scaff1.mums
    26869245 25 82

    I have tried all the other alignment programs in mummer including "-mum", "-maxmatch" and "-nucmer" and they all give the same error.

    I would really appreciate a solution to this issue if anyone has one, thank you.

  • #2
    mummrplot

    Hi,
    did you ever figure out a solution here? I'm running into the same issue.

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