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Star indexing

I've been trying to STAR index a reference sequence file but I am not getting a fa fai file. These are the files I am getting: enter image description here

This is the command that I ran: enter image description here

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I would also apply the suggestion in the warning if I was you and generally remove all whitespaces and non-standard characters from file names such as this (1).

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If you need a .fai index then you will have to use samtools faidx your.fa.

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