EricScript was developed at https://sites.google.com/site/bioericscript/ However maintenance was stopped after the last update v0.5.5 (April 2016)

In this project, EricScript will be maintained to work.

May 2, 2020

The two options --printdb and --downdb often failed due to lack of ftp client in many environment.

To check the availability of a reference database in --dbfolder, EricScript would execute an R script (lib/CheckDB.R) which would write into a file $ericscriptfolder/lib/data/_resources/.flag.dbexists a code value of 0 (no existing db) or 1 (existing db). This code was then read from the main Perl wrapper script ericscript.pl to finally continue or quit.

When using singularity containers for EricScript, trying to write to .flag.dbexists would make the execution break as singularity containers are often used in a read-only mode. Here, we have disabled this behaviour. .flag.dbexists will now always exist in the mentioned location and always contain the value 1. lib/CheckDB.R now exits with an error code directly propagated to and interpreted by the main wrapper script.

For the same reason all checks relative to bwa version in lib/CheckDB.R (for a potential auto-update of index files) have been removed.