Read ACE format assembly files
These are typically output by sequence assembly tools,
like CAP3 or Phrap.
Documented in the section labelled "ACE FILE FORMAT" at
http://bozeman.mbt.washington.edu/consed/distributions/README.14.0.txt
Briefly: each field is a line starting with a two letter code,
in some cases followed by data lines termintated by a blank line.
Here's an brief example how an ACE file looks like:
AS contigs reads
CO contig_name bases reads segments compl (CAP3: segments=0)
sequence
BQ base_qualities
AF read1 compl padded_start_consensus (negatives meaning?)
AF read2 ..
BS segments
RD read1 bases info_items info_tags (latter two set to 0 by CAP3)
sequence
QA read1 qual_start qual_end align_start align_end
DS (phred header? left empty by CAP3)
RD read2 ...
As far as I know, this is only used for nucleotide sequences.
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