I am trying to use stitch gene blocks on a pairwise alignments I generated using progressivecactus, but no matter what I try, it only returns sequences composes of only gaps. I am using a bed file from UCSC, but since my reference genome was from Ensembl, I removed the "chr" and "chrUN_" prefixes from the chromosome/scaffold positions.
Here a few lines from the maf file:
##maf version=1 scoring=N/A # hal (cobra:1,anole:1)Anc0; a s anole.1 0 1000 + 263920458 GTGTATTCGAATGATATAAACAATAGAAATAAGCAGTAGAAAACATTTGATATaggacgaagttcacaacatctggggaatccaatatagaagtggggttcaagcagcatgatttcacaattcatgaagttagcccaacgatttgaaattcatacaacagcgagtcatgagtgtgtccaaatacatagaatatgaaaattcacaaatacatgaggagaaagagttcataaggaattcatagagatggcatggggaaggggcacatatgggttagtaagtctttggaggtataggatttcataagttccaggggtgggtgtggggaagagtgttcttctctttcataaaatcacaaaagtatgcatgaaacgtggagtgcacccgtctgtcaccccctggcagctgtagagggtgagggtccttggagaactatgtctcccccgcgagagagcgatccccccatccccaattcacagaaaggggctagggaaagccattccgcgagtcgcggggagaggaaaacccgggataaggcagctgcttggcttgaaaggagctgtcggtcccgttttgacagtcagctgatgaggtgccgaaaactggaccgattccggttctgctggttgtcttcgagtcaggagccttagaaagggttaagactaaaagaggagcgttctaggggtaattttgatagagatatgagccaatttatatcgaccgccatgttaatctatggcagggaatctcagccggagttaaaaggacgggagggagagagagcgattgcatgcgaaggaaggagtcagggaaagatacaaaataaccagatagagagtgttattgttaaaataaatgctacttttattggggggatttgttacatagttcagggaagaggaaaatgaaggaaaaaaggtcttttgataatagtctgttgcggtcccgctccgttcttttggagagtaatctatggaactctctgctgcgttttcaaatcaat a s anole.1 1000 154 + 263920458 ttgaaagcgggggcgacggttatcatnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnctgtgtcaccttaaaggggtataaattTGTCATAGGCTTTTGCGGACTTCAGCACAGTTTTTCAGAAGTACAG a s anole.1 1154 1000 + 263920458 AAAAGTAAGAAATGACTGGAGAAAGCTGCATATTTCTCAATCCAGCAAGTCTGCACTGgactactttgactgagaaattacttctcccattttgatatattctacactttggcccagatccttgttttagtctcctgtttttaacattttatgctgtatgttgatttttatgatggttttattgatattgatgttttactgttggaataattgttttatcgttttattgctgtatgtttcgggctcagtccccatgtaagccactccgagtccccactggggagatgggccggggtataaaaataaagnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaAAACCAAACTCAACTAATGCTTTAGTCCATTTTCATTCTTTTATGGATTTGCCTGAGGGATACCTATTTCCTTATGATTTGGCTTTCAAAACCAAAAGTCAATACATAAGTCGTGATGGCCTGGGTTCAGCCTTAACTTTAACTTGAAACGAGCCCTCCATGGAGTTGAGCAGGAAAGGGGATATATAACAttcagagagagggtcaatgtcttggatagttcctttaaagttcaggctaaaacacagagtgtattcattgatccactgacatggaagacattggatgtatcAGAGTGGCTTTGCTAGGcacacgcagcagaagtcgctgactaggaagctctggataaataacaacgctgcagtcttcagttatctatcaaaagtttacttacgaacggaattctacaagacgatacacagctctcacgcaggcacacatgggaaggggacagagataggaAGTagaggctatttatctcatcctctgctgtctgatgcaatccaagtttaaccctttacacactggcatagtaagcagcacacagtgtatgatgcaatctccagcacacattgcacaaccatgactcaattacatttaaacaactctatatacaatcattctcacttc s Anc0.Anc0refChr2104 0 50 + 8475 AGAAGTAAGAAAAGACT----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TTTCAGAGCCAAAAGCAAATACATAAGTCGTGA---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- s cobra.AZIM01003421.1 80817 50 - 85889 AGAAGTAAGAACAGACT----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TTTCAGAGCCAAGAGCAAATACCAAAGTCATGA----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I presume that this problem is occurring because the maf file does not contain any scores (one of my coworkers is having the same problem and her file is also missing scores). So, does anyone know how to get scores from cactus, or is there any other tool that I might be able to use?
Thank you for any help.