<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I ran maker after running SNAP ab initio prediction (following instructions from the maker tutorial). It ran successfully and when I ran fasta_merge, I got several output fasta files. I’m unable to find information on the tutorial about interpreting these different files. I’m hoping one of you can help.</div><div><br></div><div>*<span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">maker.proteins.fasta</span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">*maker.snap_masked.proteins.fasta</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">*maker.non_overlapping_ab_initio.proteins.fasta</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">What is the difference among these? They all have different number of sequences.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Similarly,with transcripts:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><div style="margin: 0px;">maker.non_overlapping_ab_initio.transcripts.fasta</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;">maker.snap_masked.transcripts.fasta</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;">maker.transcripts.fasta</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Thanks</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Dhivya</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div></body></html>