cuffmerge script error

Question

[julianasrinjuli]

hello,

I am trying to use cuffmerge tool of cufflinks suite for differential analysis but it is showing error reports in python script. However, I am not good at python script. can you please suggest me what to do with that.

molbiolab@molbiolab:~/Documents/Juli/Practice/cufflinks-2.2.1.Linux_x86_64$ ./cuffmerge
  File "./cuffmerge", line 95
    except getopt.error, msg:
                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[Ram]

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[julianasrinjuli]

thank you for your suggestions. can you please help me regarding the question I have asked??

[GenoMax]

You need to provide files as input for cuffmerge. If you want to look at the help then generally ./cuffmerge -h (or --help)` is the normal convention for that.

[aneeshpanoli]

couple of things to check make sure you are using python 2.7

python --version
alias python=python2.7

Also, make sure you are not running out of some virtual env with different python version than the system

deactivate

I was able to get rid of the error with the above Hope this helps

Answer 1

[Nitin Narwade]

cuffmerge is written in python. if you run it with ./cuffmerge system will treat cuffmerge as a shell script.

You can run it by python /path/to/cufflink/src/folder/cuffmerge or you can add it in $PATH variable and call it directly like cuffmerge