we assumed that we weren't able to use the GFF3 file for indexing or featurecount so we needed to convert it to GTF format.
we first used genometools "gt gff3_to_gtf our_gff_file > new_gtf_file and that yeilded GTF file GTF2.2 version which yeild only transcrip Id and exon Id
we assumed that we weren't able to use the GFF3 file for indexing or featurecount so we needed to convert it to GTF format. we first used genometools "gt gff3_to_gtf our_gff_file > new_gtf_file and that yeilded GTF file GTF2.2 version which yeild only transcrip Id and exon Id