WHAT IS NEW IN CONSED 19.0 Consed 19.0 is an emergency maintenance release: -It fixes a problem with "Add New Reads" that causes consed to refuse to continue to add new reads. Instead, it gives an error message like this: Inserting pads in contigs to accommodate insertions in new reads...base segment from padded cons pos 1061 to 1127 is not within read E765WZ105C3VBK which lies within padded cons pos 1062 to 1350 exception thrown: addNewReads.cpp:1573 Failed assertion 'pContig->baseSegArray_.bGetDataStructureOk()' Thanks to Cliff Han (LANL) and Andre Villegas (Public Health of Canada) for supplying me with datasets to fix this. -It fixes a minor problem with tagRepeats.perl -It supports paired Solexa reads in Assembly View. Read the documentation for adding Solexa reads. The only difference is that in the file for listing the fastq files of Solexa reads to be added, instead of: > more solexa_files.fof solexa_lane1.fastq solexa_lane2.fastq solexa_lane3.fastq . . . the fof file contains: solexa_lane1_1.fastq solexa_lane1_2.fastq solexa_lane2_1.fastq solexa_lane2_2.fastq solexa_lane3_1.fastq solexa_lane3_2.fastq . . . where solexa_lane1_1.fastq and solexa_lane1_2.fastq contain the /1 and /2 reads respectively. Thanks to Joe Fass, UC Davis, for sample datasets for this.