bowtie2-align died with signal 6 (ABRT) (core dumped)
I do not know why I got the below error:
bowtie2 -x tdna -U s21.fq -S sample5.sam
Error: reads file does not look like a FASTQ file
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'int'
(ERR): bowtie2-align died with signal 6 (ABRT) (core dumped)
Thank you in advance.
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Please share first few lines of s21.fq
Also, are you using some very old version of bowtie2. Please specify the bowtie2 version.
Check validity of your fastq files
Checking fastq is valid
Thank you all, my fastq file was broken.
How did you discover that ?
I opened the file and saw that accidentally during the trimming stage I converted it to a FASTA file.
Thank you all, my fastq file was broken.