Special characters in the metassembler assembly

Question

[mafireyi]

Hi

I have assembled a genome using 2 assemblers (Allpaths and MaSurCA) and used Metassembler to merge them. The metassembler has special characters with in it,RYKMSWBD. Does anyone know which bases they represent.

Thanks

Answer 1

[Ram]

The table here should be helpful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_notation#IUPAC_notation

[mafireyi]

Thanks a lot. That helped