I’m trying to run featureCounts for zebrafish, however it returns the error: ERROR: failed to find the gene identifier attribute in the 9th column of the provided GTF file. The specified gene identifier attribute is ‘gene_id’ An example of attributes included in your GTF annotation is’ ID = id1; …

Welcome @petenbender [image] petenbender: ERROR: failed to find the gene identifier attribute in the 9th column of the provided GTF file. The specified gene identifier attribute is ‘gene_id’ An example of attributes included in your GTF annotation is’ ID = id1; Parent = rna0; Dbxref = GeneID:…

Problems with attributes in featureCounts -- GFF3 input instead of GTF

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jennaj August 18, 2023, 5:21pm 4

Resolved in here: Featurecounts error using a gene annotation from a gff3 file

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Problems with attributes in featureCounts -- GFF3 input instead of GTF

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