Snakemake, snake files

Question

[beginner123]

Hi everyone,

I want to make a snake file. I already downloaded snakemake, but what command should I do in order to make a snake file? Because I already have the rules I want to put in the snake file, but somehow I don't know how to make a snakefile.

Can anyone help me?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

A snakefile is just a text file with a defined syntax. Open your favorite text editor, type the code, save as a text file named "Snakefile"

[beginner123]

I thought that it was following Python synthax?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Snake is a language over python.

Answer 1

[colindaven]

Why not follow the beginners tutorial ? https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial/basics.html