Q:
Since I am working on pseudogene identification for my new project, I was using your pipeline. But I am having few errors which I am going to mention below. Can you please help me to resolve these errors. I shall be very grateful to you.
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> ERRORS:
> 1. On terminal:
> sudo bash pseudopipe.sh ~/pgenes/ppipe_output/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a ~/pgenes/ppipe_input/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a/dna/dna_rm.fa ~/pgenes/ppipe_input/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a/dna/Caenorhabditis_elegans.WS220.62.dna.chromosome.%s.fa ~/pgenes/ppipe_input/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a/pep/Caenorhabditis_elegans.WS220.62.pep.fa ~/pgenes/ppipe_input/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a/mysql/chr%s_exLocs 0
> Making directories
> Copying sequences
> Fomatting the DNAs
> Preparing the blast jobs
> Skipping blast
> Processing blast output
> Skipping the processing of blast output
> Running Pseudopipe on both strands
> Working on M strand
> Finished Pseudopipe on strand M
> Working on P strand
> Finished Pseudopipe on strand P
> Generating final results
> find: ‘/home/kashmir/pgenes/ppipe_output/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a/pgenes/minus/pgenes’: No such file or directory
> find: ‘/home/kashmir/pgenes/ppipe_output/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a/pgenes/plus/pgenes’: No such file or directory
> gzip: /home/kashmir/pgenes/ppipe_output/caenorhabditis_elegans_62_220a/pgenes/*/pgenes/*.all.fa: No such file or directory
> Finished generating pgene full alignment
> Finished running Pseudopipe
> 2. In log file inside minus and plus folder:
> need to document overlap parameter (30) and dependency on mask array files.
> mask fields [2, 3]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/kashmir/SOFTWARE/pgenes/pseudopipe/core/filterEnsemblGene.py", line 60, in <module>
> maskFile = openOrFail(ExonMaskTemplate % chr, ‘r’)
> TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
> running filterEnsemblGene.py
> failed during filterEnsemblGene.py stage.

A:
From the output it looks like you had a couple of issues starting with the blast job.

Could you please check your output directory in the blast/output folder and see if you see any split000*.Out files (where * is a number). If you don’t see any output files it means that your blast job did not run. In order run the pipeline you need to have a couple of additional software packages installed and preferentially added to the path. Specifically you will need: blast-2.2.13 and fasta-35.1.5. If you do not want to add them to the path, you can add the path to their location in the env.sh file that you can find in the bin folder of the PseudoPipe.

This should allow you to run the pipeline without any issues.