Installing a pre-built index with Bowtie(1)

Question

[gld_binf0]

Forgive any novice mistakes/details overlooked as this is my first post, and I am a student of Bioinformatics.

My question is more theory oriented than asking for help. I am following the Bowtie: Tutorial from JHU and am using a pre-built index as referenced on the tutorial page. My question is that the instructions mention to unzip the <species>.ebwt.zip to successfully install the index. This appears to work and I am able to test this successfully.

If this is the case then why does the zipped package come with a make.sh file? Is this included to download specified chromosomes and create a 'narrow' reference dictionary?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

[JC]

The "make.sh" script is used to automatically create the index, also in case you want to know how was generated or want to create your own.

[gld_binf0]

Thank you for confirming my doubt!

[WouterDeCoster]

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