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6.9 years ago
Xiaokang
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When using hisat2-build, several files with .ht2 extension will be generated. And in my experiment, there are 8 files generated, with 6 files of big size, and the other 2 of small size. Is it always the case that 8 index files will be generated? Or how can I predict how many index files will be generated from hisat2-build?
Any particular reason you are worried about how many files are generated by this process?
No particular reason for now, just curious :) But may be useful in the future.
The manual is a bit weird about this...:
No one ever said documentation was good in bioinfo :P
same to you. my output includ 6 .ht2 and 2 .sa file
have you solved the problem?
8 files is the expected output of indexing.
I noticed that there were more files being generated while the build was in progress, but most of them got deleted and I was left with 8. Is that normal? Because I don't know if they are supposed to get deleted .
As long as there was no error during index generation you should be good to move forward.
Okay, thank you