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A software to detect virome-wide integrations
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Download RepBase for RepeatMasker #12

Open biosciences opened 1 year ago

biosciences commented 1 year ago

There is error when go through step using RepeatMasker: "Species 'human' is not known to RepeatMasker." It looks like I didn't setup the reference database RepBase for RepeatMasker properly.

Therefore, I tried to setup RepeatMasker with reference database RepBase by following RepeatMakser INSTALL file. However, I found out we need to pay for downloading the database file Repbase-derived RepeatMasker libraries: [RepBaseRepeatMaskerEdition-20181026.tar.gz] (53.48 MB) from https://www.girinst.org/server/RepBase/index.php.

How did you setup the reference database (human) for RepeatMasker?

xunchen85 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Yes, the repbase is not free. Instead, you could use the DFAM (https://www.dfam.org/repository) database for the analysis.

Best, Xun