params.fastq = "$baseDir/data/fastq/*.fastq" params.index = "$baseDir/data/index/*.index*" params.mean = 300 params.sd = 100 log.info "fastq files : ${params.fastq}" log.info "index files : ${params.index}" log.info "mean read size: ${params.mean}" log.info "sd read size: ${params.sd}" Channel .fromPath( params.fastq ) .ifEmpty { error "Cannot find any fastq files matching: ${params.fastq}" } .set { fastq_files } Channel .fromPath( params.index ) .ifEmpty { error "Cannot find any index files matching: ${params.index}" } .set { index_files } process mapping_fastq { tag "$reads.baseName" cpus 4 publishDir "results/mapping/quantification/", mode: 'copy' input: file reads from fastq_files file index from index_files.toList() output: file "*" into count_files script: index_name = (index[0].baseName =~ /(.*)\.\d/)[0][1] """ rsem-calculate-expression --bowtie2 \ --bowtie2-path \$(which bowtie2 | sed 's/bowtie2\$//g') \ --bowtie2-sensitivity-level "very_sensitive" \ --fragment-length-mean ${params.mean} --fragment-length-sd ${params.sd} \ --output-genome-bam -p ${task.cpus} \ ${reads} ${index_name} ${reads.baseName} \ > ${reads.baseName}_rsem_bowtie2_report.txt """ }