Weird MACS behavior

feralBiologist

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11-28-2013, 12:39 PM

I am trying to run macs14 with sam files from paired-end data + control. Macs14 returns "No such file":

Code:

sb7904313:line2 $ macs14 -t /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s5/clean_paired_sample.sam -c /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s11/clean_paired_sample.sam 
-bash: macs14 -t /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s5/clean_paired_sample.sam -c /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s11/clean_paired_sample.sam : No such file or directory

Yet the files exist:

Code:

sb7904313:line2 $ ls -all /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s5/clean_paired_sample.sam
-rw-r--r--  1 nn  staff  24776263204 28 Nov 11:51 /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s5/clean_paired_sample.sam
sb7904313:line2 $ ls -all /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s11/clean_paired_sample.sam
-rw-r--r--  1 nn  staff  14223812120 28 Nov 12:19 /Volumes/Data/G6L2_G6L3/s11/clean_paired_sample.sam

Macs14 seems to be correctly installed:

Code:

sb7904313:line2 $ macs14 --version
macs14 1.4.2 20120305

I am just stumped. Can you give advice?

--EDIT: Thanks to Istvan (http://www.biostars.org/p/87694/#87757) I realized it is an operating system-related issue.

Last edited by feralBiologist; 11-29-2013, 04:24 AM. Reason: resolved

Tags: macs, paired end

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