[BioC] Limit on number of sequence files for forging a BSgenome

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Marco,

You are probably right in diagnosing the problem, but sometimes I
think I have seen FASTA files with the entire sequence on a single
line, instead of (say) 80 nucleotides and then a newline.  I could
believe that a really long contig on a single line without a newline,
could cause an error like this. You could quickly check if there is a
suspicious file by
  wc -l *
and look for files with #lines like 2-3.  Somehow 460 seems a weird
number to fail at.

This may not be your problem, and I am sure Herve will respond in due time.

Best,
Kasper

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Blanchette, Marco <MAB at stowers.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a maximum number of sequence files (chromosomes or contigs in my case) that can be fed to the forgeBSgenomeDataPkg() function? I am trying to build a BSgenome for C. brenneri and C. japonica available from EnsemblGenomes. These genomes are made from thousands of contigs with genes annotated to them. Currently, I get the following error when running "Error: Line longer than buffer size" when running on the full set of contigs. However, it works fine on a seed file containing a subset of the contigs (I can forge a genome with 450 contigs but not with 460!)
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated (I can provide a toy example but I am not sure what would be the merit of it at this point)
>
> Thanks
>
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