Understanding ValueError error messages

Authors:

The full error is usually a longer message seen only after clicking on the bug icon or by reviewing the job details stderr.

How to do both is covered in the Troubleshooting errors FAQ.

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ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: some-sequence-read-name

Causes:
- MACS2 produces this error the first time it is run. MACS is not the only tool that can produce this issue, but it is the most common.
Solutions:
- Try at least one rerun.
- MACS/2 is not capable of interpreting sequence read names with spaces included. Try following these two:
  - Remove unmapped reads from the SAM dataset. There are several filtering tools in the groups SAMTools and Picard that can do this.
  - Convert the SAM input to BAM format with the tool SAMtools: SAM-to-BAM. When compressed input is given to MACS, the spaces are no longer an issue.

Resource PURL: https://gxy.io/GTN:F00108