In article <334D9DCB.4399 at genesis.co.nz>, i.havukkala at genesis.co.nz wrote:
>
> They appear at random in different gels, from four sequencers, and occur
> in three flavours:
>
> 1) electropherograms which show gibberish characters above the traces in
> trev.
Yep. I've got some of these. Often the sequence display begins with an
ampersand or some other peculiar character.
> 2) electropherograms which show only one colour of traces, sequence
> above is ok
Nope. Never seen that one.
> 3) electropherograms which show sequence ok, but get gradually out of
> alignment from the trace peaks, at 300 bp plus already 3-5 basepairs.
>
Yep. Seen these as well.
As to James' comment about the difference in display between Mac and Sun,
we generally use MacX (version 1.2) for our display. I think we get the
same problem with the X-server built in to MachTen (since I know I've seen
it on my machine and that's the server I *usually* use), but I could be
wrong. I'll check it next time I see it.
One thing that I think is causing a problem and that we are working on
testing - does anyone else tar their files before transferring up to the
UNIX system? We used to (using a program called tarmac), but I think it
trashes ABI files in some subtle way. (That's why I haven't sent you those
files I mentioned previously, James).
Anyone else want to comment?
Andy Law
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