Platypus variant caller error

Question

[anithanagaraj93]

Hi, I am trying to install Platypus on my server, It's building properly telling "Finished building Platypus", but after this when I start to call platypus by: python Platypus.py it throws an error

**Traceback (most recent call last):

File "Platypus.py", line 9, in <module>

import runner

File "/home/group_bioIT01/Anitha/tools/Platypus_0.8.1/runner.py", line 9, in <module>

import variantcaller

File "htslibWrapper.pxd", line 203, in init variantcaller (variantcaller.c:16971)

ImportError:/Platypus_0.8.1/htslibWrapper.so: undefined symbol: sam_hdr_destroy**

how to resolve this error?

[Amitm]

Hi, Unless there is a specific reason to build the package yourself, you could take the conda route and install many bioinfo. related packages through one command-line step. The related page for platypus is here. Advantage of using conda is that it takes care of all software dependencies.

[anithanagaraj93]

Actually, it builds properly but throws an error when I start running Platypus.