Hi, I am trying to run STAR-2.7.11b which is the latest version of STAR alignment tool. I have tried and done all the troubleshooting steps to solve this error saying while doing alignment step: STAR version: 2.7.11b compiled: 2024-03-13T14:46:00+05:30 :/home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/STAR-2.7.11b/source
Mar 16 13:15:58 ..... started STAR run
Mar 16 13:15:58 ..... loading genome
EXITING because of FATAL ERROR: could not open genome file genomeDir//genomeParameters.txt
SOLUTION: check that the path to genome files, specified in --genomeDir is correct and the files are present, and have user read permissions. my command is: /home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/STAR-2.7.11b/STAR --genomeDir genomeDir --sjdbGTFfile gencode_annotation.gtf --readFilesIn /home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/Trimmomatic-0.39/paired_files/SRR23529085_forward_paired.fastq.gz /home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/Trimmomatic-0.39/paired_files/SRR23529085_reverse_paired.fastq.gz --readFilesCommand zcat
/home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/STAR-2.7.11b/STAR --genomeDir genomeDir --sjdbGTFfile gencode_annotation.gtf --readFilesIn /home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/Trimmomatic-0.39/paired_files/SRR23529085_forward_paired.fastq.gz /home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/Trimmomatic-0.39/paired_files/SRR23529085_reverse_paired.fastq.gz --readFilesCommand zcat please help me to solve this why this error is coming. the list of index files generated are: diksham@iiitd:~/lipogenesis/myenv/STAR-2.7.11b$ cd /home/diksham/lipogenesis/myenv/STAR-2.7.11b/genomeDir
diksham@iiitd:~/lipogenesis/myenv/STAR-2.7.11b/genomeDir$ ls -l
total 21208076
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 3021 Mar 15 20:48 chrLength.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 11672 Mar 15 20:48 chrNameLength.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 8651 Mar 15 20:48 chrName.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 4990 Mar 15 20:48 chrStart.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 58705461 Mar 15 20:48 exonGeTrInfo.tab
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 24161732 Mar 15 20:48 exonInfo.tab
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 2647889 Mar 15 20:48 geneInfo.tab
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 42890 Mar 16 00:26 Log.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 7233117440 Mar 15 23:15 SA_0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 7160908992 Mar 15 23:07 SA_1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham
7207608920 Mar 16 00:26 SA_2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 12818126 Mar 15 20:48 sjdbList.fromGTF.out.tab
-rw-rw-r-- 1 diksham diksham 16992166 Mar 15 20:48 transcriptInfo.tab