Spawning mothur from a Java thread

Commands in mothur
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Hello,

I’m attempting to spawn multiple mothur processes and am running into this issue:

The command I’m issuing in the code is:

/common/mothur-v.1.6.0/mothur "#read.dist(phylip=/home/cfriedline/bnfo/OTUProcessor/Sample0016_phylip_dist.txt); cluster(); rarefaction.single(); summary.single()"

What I get back is this:

Error: Could not open "#read.dist(phylip=/home/cfriedline/bnfo/OTUProcessor/Sample0016_phylip_dist.txt);
unable to open batchfile

If I just copy/paste this code into a terminal, it runs fine. Is there something inherent to mothur that makes it not amenable to this type of thing?

Thanks,
Chris

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There’s nothing in mothur that should cause a problem. I’ve done similar things with Perl scripts and there have been no problems. Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help out.

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I am experiencing a similar problem but this time with running mothur from inside of python. I tried both running it directly within an os.system command, which executes the command in a subshell. I then got the message “Unable to open” the things that I wrote within the “”, i.e. the mothur commands, and then “unable to open batchfile”. I next tried writing the commands to a file, which I then ran in batch mode from python with os.system. In this case I get a notice that the batch file is empty.

Could you show how you do this in perl, so I can use this to debug?

Thanks,

Karin