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SnpEff error message

I seem to get the same error message when I try to do anything using SnpEff. It seems like other people have addressed this error by updating java, but I have tried that and think I have the most up to date version (build 1.7.0_67-b01). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Error Message:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ca/mcgill/mcb/pcingola/snpEffect/commandLine/SnpEff : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
snpeff
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updated by Ram Ram • written by eb050187 • eb050187

I think it's LGPLv3 - I just tried redownloading it today

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written by eb050187 • eb050187

I wonder if the newest version got compiled with j2se v 8, since otherwise it should be compatible with version 7, which is what you're running. Perhaps upgrading java will fix this?

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written by Devon Ryan Devon Ryan

Devon is right jdk8:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Build-Jdk: 1.8.0
Main-Class: ca.mcgill.mcb.pcingola.snpEffect.commandLine.SnpEff
but the error message is weird. Snpeff seems to work with my jdk7
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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

Thanks for confirming. Given that snpEff is explicitly supposed to work with jdk7 could someone report this to the author?

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written by Devon Ryan Devon Ryan

It doesn't mean that it's an error. I think you can compile with a modern jdk and produce an legacy code.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

1 answer

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updated by Ram Ram • written by amine • amine

I'm downloaded and installed snpEff_v3_6_core.zip, it works fine, maybe you can have a try too.

For your information, my java version is 1.7.0_09-icedtea, running on 64bit OS.

May I know if you're stucked at which session, when you're building database or annotating variants file?

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updated by Ram Ram • written by amine • amine

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