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Cuffmerge: skipping large bundles error

Hey everyone,

I've seen lots of similar questions to this one asked before so apologies, but not one specifically for Cuffmerge rather than Cufflinks. When originally running Cufflinks I was getting error messages such as:

N00001:11202239-15247668 Warning: Skipping large bundle.

I avoided this however by adding --max-bundle-length 10000000 to my Cufflinks command. However now when I run Cuffmerge on the resulting transcript GTFs (from 5 individuals, 6 tissues), these errors start reappearing, even though those regions are resolved in the Cufflinks output. As Cuffmerge has no max-bundle-length option, I'm not sure how to fix this, anyone encountered a similar problem?

Cheers, Rory

rna-seq software error

As an update, these errors don't occur if the -g option for using a genome annotation GTF is not used. Looking at the annotation file I can't see any genes spanning more than 3.5Mb in these regions, so no idea why this is happening. Anyone know how cuffmerge uses the GTF file? This affects about 1/3 of my 1Gb genome so it's a pretty major fault, could be something wrong with the data itself.

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