Bowtie seems to be working fine (tested command '/gscratch/srlab/programs/bowtie2-2.3.5.1-linux-x86_64/bowtie2 --version' [2.3.5]) Output format is BAM (default) Alignments will be written out in BAM format. Samtools path provided as: '/gscratch/srlab/programs/samtools-1.9/samtools' Reference genome folder provided is /gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/OFS/ (absolute path is '/gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/OFS/)' FastQ format assumed (by default) Each Bowtie 2 instance is going to be run with 4 threads. Please monitor performance closely and tune down if needed! Input files to be analysed (in current folder '/gscratch/scrubbed/strigg/analyses/20200316/TG_EPI-Test3'): /gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/FASTQS/20bp_clip/EPI-167_S10_L002_R1_001_val_1.20bp-trim.fq.gz /gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/FASTQS/20bp_clip/EPI-167_S10_L002_R2_001_val_2.20bp-trim.fq.gz Library is assumed to be strand-specific (directional), alignments to strands complementary to the original top or bottom strands will be ignored (i.e. not performed!) Unable to create directory /gscratch/scrubbed/strigg/analyses/20200317/TG_EPI-Test3/ No such file or directory Bowtie seems to be working fine (tested command '/gscratch/srlab/programs/bowtie2-2.3.5.1-linux-x86_64/bowtie2 --version' [2.3.5]) Output format is BAM (default) Alignments will be written out in BAM format. Samtools path provided as: '/gscratch/srlab/programs/samtools-1.9/samtools' Reference genome folder provided is /gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/OFS/ (absolute path is '/gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/OFS/)' FastQ format assumed (by default) Each Bowtie 2 instance is going to be run with 4 threads. Please monitor performance closely and tune down if needed! Input files to be analysed (in current folder '/gscratch/scrubbed/strigg/analyses/20200316/TG_EPI-Test3'): /gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/FASTQS/EPI-167_S10_L002_R1_001_val_1.fq.gz /gscratch/srlab/strigg/data/Pgenr/FASTQS/EPI-167_S10_L002_R2_001_val_2.fq.gz Library is assumed to be strand-specific (directional), alignments to strands complementary to the original top or bottom strands will be ignored (i.e. not performed!) Unable to create directory /gscratch/scrubbed/strigg/analyses/20200317/TG_EPI-Test3/ No such file or directory *** Bismark methylation extractor version v0.19.0 *** Setting option '--no_overlap' since this is (normally) the right thing to do for paired-end data Summarising Bismark methylation extractor parameters: =============================================================== Bismark paired-end SAM format specified (default) Number of cores to be used: 14 Output will be written to the current directory ('/gscratch/scrubbed/strigg/analyses/20200316/TG_EPI-Test3') Summarising bedGraph parameters: =============================================================== Generating additional output in bedGraph and coverage format bedGraph format: coverage format: Using a cutoff of 1 read(s) to report cytosine positions Reporting and sorting cytosine methylation information in CpG context only (default) The bedGraph UNIX sort command will use the following memory setting: '75%'. Temporary directory used for sorting is the output directory Checking file >>*.bam<< for signs of file truncation... Captured error message: '[E::hts_open_format] Failed to open file *.bam' [ERROR] The file appears to be truncated, please ensure that there were no errors while copying the file!!! Exiting...