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How to use cxb files from cuffquant in cuffdiff?

Hi

I am trying to first use the cuffquant tool before using cuffdiff, but when I try to use the cxb files from cuffquant in cuffdiff I get this error message:

Error: cuffdiff requires at least 2 SAM files

I read that it was possible to use the cuffquant files in cuffdiff, but there is no examples anywhere that I can find....

Here is my code (minus the directories)

./cuffdiff -b /ppatens3.fa -N -L "case","control" -o "./diff_quant" --multi-read-correct case/abundances.cxb control/abundances.cxb

Thanks

cuffdiff cxb cuffquant

Ok thanks for that..I am running it now...(taking a long time)

It can take 2-5 hours depending upon the species, sample sequencing depth and the number of cores your are using.
Use comments to write something thats not an answer.

Well I got to "Testing for differential expression and regulation in locus" and then the process was killed after 8%....

Could it be that my computer is not powerful enough?

1 answer

A transcript gtf file is an important non-optional parameter. Provide that for your reference genome, the error will go away.

cuffdiff [options] <transcripts.gtf> <sample1_hits.sam> <sample2_hits.sam> [... sampleN_hits.sam]

i too found same problem as we did processed data using cuffquant do any one had idea how to proceed with cuff_quant.cxb

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