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  • bbm
    Member
    • Sep 2011
    • 38

    tophat could not find bowtie index files

    I'm trying to align my rna-seq data to ref genome using tophat. I made bowtie2 index files, and it is in the working dir.
    The code I used is :
    "source /usr/local/apps/tophat/tophat.csh

    cd /gpfs_share/hlibyar/tophat

    tophat Am_genome ../trim/IAPV_05h_TTAGGC_L003_R1_001.trimmed.fastq
    "


    This is my error msg.

    [2014-09-11 16:36:03] Beginning TopHat run (v2.0.8b)
    -----------------------------------------------
    [2014-09-11 16:36:03] Checking for Bowtie
    Bowtie 2 not found, checking for older version..
    Bowtie version: 1.0.0.0
    [2014-09-11 16:36:03] Checking for Samtools
    Samtools version: 0.1.19.0
    [2014-09-11 16:36:03] Checking for Bowtie index files
    Error: Could not find Bowtie index files (Am_genome.*.ebwt)

    It seems like tophat is looking for ebwt files, but my index are *.bt2
    Pls help me here! thanks a lot!
  • Brian Bushnell
    Super Moderator
    • Jan 2014
    • 2709

    #2
    The error states that it could not find bowtie2. I assume it needs to be in the path.

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    • GenoMax
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2008
      • 7142

      #3
      It found bowtie1 but the right index files (you have version 2 files) are missing. So you can either include path for bowtie2 or create indexes using bowtie1. I assume you want the former.

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      • bbm
        Member
        • Sep 2011
        • 38

        #4
        Originally posted by GenoMax View Post
        It found bowtie1 but the right index files (you have version 2 files) are missing. So you can either include path for bowtie2 or create indexes using bowtie1. I assume you want the former.
        Thanks! But my bowtie2 index are in the current dir?
        still need to give the path?
        I'll try that.

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        • GenoMax
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2008
          • 7142

          #5
          Your default $PATH is pointing to bowtie v.1. executable. Do you have bowtie v.2. installed? That location of v.2 executable should be added to $PATH.

          Once tophat finds a version of bowtie (I think it looks for v.2 first then v.1) it will go looking for the indexes. Since it found v.1 it went looking for those indexes (the indexes differ for the two versions).

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          • lupid
            Member
            • Mar 2015
            • 54

            #6
            hi
            I'm following a tutorial in tophat, but I don't know what is wrong with my code, please help
            I have been trying with
            tophat -p 2 -G GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gtf -o C1_R1_thout /home/tomas/bin/c1/genome genome GSM794483_C1_R1_1.fq GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq

            tophat -p 2 -G GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gtf -o C1_R1_thout genome.1 GSM794483_C1_R1_1.fq GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq

            or even this
            tophat -p 2 -G GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gtf -o C1_R1_thout genome.1 GSM794483_C1_R1_1.fq GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq
            but nothing work...

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            • GenoMax
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2008
              • 7142

              #7
              Are you following the tophat tutorial from nature protocols?

              Can you post a long listing (ls -l) of files from the directory where you are trying to run tophat from?

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              • lupid
                Member
                • Mar 2015
                • 54

                #8
                ls
                C1_R1_thout genome.3.bt2 GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq.gz
                genome genome.4.bt2 GSM794483_C1_R1.accepted_hits.bam
                genome.1.bt2 GSM794483_C1_R1_1.fq GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gff
                genome.2.bt2 GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gtf

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                • GenoMax
                  Senior Member
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 7142

                  #9
                  Try this:

                  Code:
                  $ tophat -p 2 -G ./GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gtf -o ./C1_R1_thout_new ./genome ./GSM794483_C1_R1_1.fq ./GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq

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                  • lupid
                    Member
                    • Mar 2015
                    • 54

                    #10
                    tomas@HP-Pavilion:~/bin/c1$ tophat -p 2 -G ./GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gtf -o ./C1_R1_thout_new ./genome ./GSM794483_C1_R1_1.fq ./GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq

                    [2015-03-20 13:53:45] Beginning TopHat run (v2.0.13)
                    -----------------------------------------------
                    [2015-03-20 13:53:45] Checking for Bowtie
                    Bowtie version: 2.2.5.0
                    [2015-03-20 13:53:45] Checking for Bowtie index files (genome)..
                    Error: Could not find Bowtie 2 index files (./genome.*.bt2)

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                    • lupid
                      Member
                      • Mar 2015
                      • 54

                      #11
                      i'm working with ubuntu 14, and every file are in the same directory

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                      • GenoMax
                        Senior Member
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 7142

                        #12
                        Can you post a long listing of this directory?

                        Code:
                        $ ls -lh
                        Did you get the index files from Illumina igenomes?
                        Last edited by GenoMax; 03-20-2015, 09:02 AM.

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                        • lupid
                          Member
                          • Mar 2015
                          • 54

                          #13
                          Are not
                          tomas@HP-Pavilion:~/bin/c1$ ls -lh
                          total 4,1G
                          drwxrwxr-x 4 tomas tomas 4,0K mar 20 10:32 C1_R1_thout
                          drwxrwxr-x 4 tomas tomas 4,0K mar 20 13:53 C1_R1_thout_new
                          drwxrwxr-x 2 tomas tomas 4,0K mar 20 12:15 genome
                          -rwxrwxr-x 1 tomas tomas 43M abr 10 2012 genome.1.bt2
                          -rwxrwxr-x 1 tomas tomas 29M abr 10 2012 genome.2.bt2
                          -rwxrwxr-x 1 tomas tomas 143 abr 10 2012 genome.3.bt2
                          -rwxrwxr-x 1 tomas tomas 29M abr 10 2012 genome.4.bt2
                          -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomas tomas 1,8G mar 20 10:34 GSM794483_C1_R1_1.fq
                          -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomas tomas 1,8G mar 20 10:35 GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq
                          -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomas tomas 138M sep 13 2011 GSM794483_C1_R1_2.fq.gz
                          -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomas tomas 325M sep 9 2011 GSM794483_C1_R1.accepted_hits.bam
                          -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomas tomas 14M mar 20 11:02 GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gff
                          -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomas tomas 14M mar 20 10:29 GSM794483_C1_R1.transcripts.gtf

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                          • GenoMax
                            Senior Member
                            • Feb 2008
                            • 7142

                            #14
                            Those index files do not look right. Where did you get those from? There are two genome.rev.*.bt2 files missing.

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                            • lupid
                              Member
                              • Mar 2015
                              • 54

                              #15
                              i get it from http://0-www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.elis.t...i?acc=GSE32038

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