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Error when trying to convert exonerate output to gff3

edit: seems to be working OK when I use EVM's Exonerate_to_gff3.pl script.

Hi all, I used exonerate protein2genome mode and got a gff file: enter image description here

Now when I try to convert it to gff3 using gffread I get this:

Error parsing attribute gene_id ('"' required for GTF) at line:

Chr01 exonerate:protein2genome:local gene 12952001 12955830 3036 + . gene_id 1 ; tr|I1J698|I1J698_SOYBN; gene_orientation + ; identity 100.00 ; similarity 100.00 e

Any ideas what can I do to fix it? My goal is to convert the files i got from different gene prediction methods and use them as input for EVM (EVidenceModeler).

Thank you!

evm gff exonerate gff3 annotation

Hey can anyone share the parameter for exonerate to generate gff file? My settings gave me a C4 alignment output files that contain target/querry sequences and alignment. My goal is to extract querry/target sequences. All packages that extract sequences from gff using genome.fasta files are enable to do so with the kind of output I am getting

1 answer

AGAT can probably deal with that indeed.

Otherwise the problem is that the format is not respected: For GTF: Attributes’ values should be surrounded by double quotes which is not the case here. On top of that, to be proper GTF you need a semicolon at the end of each feature line. See here for more information https://agat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gxf.html

Hey Juke! Thanks for the suggestion, AGAT seems great.

I hope you don't mind me asking but, why is there such a big difference in size between the AGAT versions?

No problem. Could you elaborate? What did you see? The github repo or the tool/lib installation?

Prior v0.8.0 I was using R by default to make some plots. So it was installing R and plenty of related dependencies. Since >=v0.8.0 I removed R by default. It is still possible to make plots in scripts handling it but you need install R and the dependecies yourself. That made a serious change in size.

If you look at the size of the repo, the v.0.9.0 contain ppt from PAG2022 presentation, which is 6Mb size so that make a serious size change.

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