Running EricScript

Once you have downloaded EricScript, extract the package

tar -xjf ericscript.tar.bz2

Make a copy of the program folder to your favorite location.
Before running for the first time EricScript, you need to make ericscript.pl executable:

chmod +x /PATH/TO/ERIC/ericscript.pl

Then, you need to download the pre-built Ensembl Database:

/PATH/TO/ERIC/ericscript.pl --checkdb

To get information about running EricScript, digit:

/PATH/TO/ERIC/ericscript.pl --help

To run a demonstration of EricScript pipeline on a synthetic dataset, digit:

/PATH/TO/ERIC/ericscript.pl --demo

To run EricScript with default parameters, digit:

/PATH/TO/ERIC/ericscript.pl -name SAMPLENAME -o /PATH/TO/OUTPUT/YOUR_FASTQ_1 /PATH/TO/OUTPUT/YOUR_FASTQ_2