what dose "consensus path" generated with parameter -Q mean

[yipukangda]

Hi,

pggb has a parameter -Q to give consensus path a prefix name in the smoothxg step, what dose "consensus path" mean and where could I find it(I searched in gfa file but get no results).

thanks

[AndreaGuarracino]

smoothxg can add (into the final graph) consensus sequences obtained by performing partial order alignment in each graph block during graph normalization. However, such a feature is currently disabled in pggb. I should probably hide the -Q parameter for a while!

[yipukangda]

Thanks, if I use smoothxg independently with this function, dose it mean this step could merge all similar sequence within a block into one?