Paul,
It's been a while since I used phrap on large projects like yours but I'd
have to say your result surprises me. I remember we used an Ultra1 with 256
MB at first, then added more for 512, but even with the largest assemblies
phrap would never run out of memory, it would just go into its heavy swap
mode and slow down, but never actually stop. Do you have enough disk space
for a good swapfile? Has someone limited the size of your swapfile?
Brian Osborne
OSI Pharmaceuticals
http://www.osip.com
777 Old Saw Mill River Rd.
Tarrytown NY USA
10591-6705
brian.osborne at cadus.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Shinn [mailto:pshinn at mail2.sas.upenn.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:01 AM
To: autoseq at net.bio.net
Subject: Large phrap assemblies
I can't seem to find the proper forum for this question so I'll ask
here.
If you have someone in your lab who can answer the question, please pass
it on.
We have 100-120kb sequencing projects that can exceed 5000
sequences. When this happens, phrap runs out of memory and we end up
finding alternative, more tedious ways to assemble the data. Our fastest
machine a Sparc Ultra10, 450Mhz with 384MB RAM doesn't even cut the
mustard. There is a departmental machine with 1Gig of RAM that can't
even do it sometimes. My question is, what systems are your groups using
to assemble with phrap? I think really fast Sparcs get prohibitively
expensive but it doesn't seem like too many people run Solaris on PCs. I
would like to buy a dual processor computer or even a REALLY fast single
processor model with RAM maxed out to handle this task. That is unless,
of course, you have an alternative to this brute force method.
Paul
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