[maker-devel] Merging gene predictions....

[Gowthaman Ramasamy]

Hi Carson and others,
I am wondering if I can use Maker to merge gene predictions from three gff files. One of the algorithm is 'augustus' which of course i can use it inside Maker. Other two are not part of Maker.

But, in case if I want to pass only the GFFs to Maker and ask it to merge the annotations (when overlap) and pick only annotation that are predicted in 2 out of 3 gffs. Is it possible? I prefer this approach, as we need to run a blast based validation step on predicted features before even try to merge them. Thats another reason why we dont prefer to use the augustus inside maker. 

Thanks,
Gowthaman