ensembl --cache gunzip

Question

[abdulbenissa]

Hello everyone!

I was just wondering what is the ideal way to uncompress cache file for Variant Effect Predictor. I used gunzip to uncompress homo_sapiens_vep_82_GRCh38.tar, but the decompressed files contain .gz files that need to be uncompress as well I think, do I have to decompress them all file by file? I am sure there are a away that I missed reading the documentation!

Thanks for you time

Answer 1

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

The files normally have .tar.gz extensions. They are created with the tar archive utility. You can decompress/unarchive them with tar xvf archive_name.tar.gz e.g. tar xvzf saccharomyces_cerevisiae_vep_82_R64-1-1.tar.gz

Answer 2

[Emily]

Do you mean the filenames like 1-1000000_reg.gz? They're supposed to be like that. Just leave them. They'll work.