gff3,gtf to gff

[parulvk]

For a specific software I require to convert gene annotations which are in gff3 and gtf format to gff format. Any scripts/tools to do do would be helpful

[steven]

Did you try using the gff3 or gtf files directly? Both gff3 and gtf should be "gff-compliant", they are just special cases of gff with more information. Getting rid of this extra information by keeping only the 8 first columns of the files will produce a minimal gff format (for instance using "cut -f1-8 file.gtf > file.gff") but you may want to keep that information somehow.
More information would be helpful, like the name of the software, a few lines of the format you have, the format you want, the error message you get when trying to use gtf, etc.

[parulvk]

Thanks steven this information helps! Also I came across this script that converts gtf to gff2

http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/gmod/genogrid/drospege/gtf2gff.pl