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adds group parameter to chimera.uchime so you can check for chimeras with template...
[mothur.git] / chimeraslayercommand.cpp
index 4c37a854fe317a29c90be7dc45e31144fe68a6c5..0958630862ebf3e61c9d2ec23e5618ddaa868ef1 100644 (file)
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
  */
 
 #include "chimeraslayercommand.h"
-#include "chimeraslayer.h"
 #include "deconvolutecommand.h"
 #include "referencedb.h"
 
@@ -36,6 +35,7 @@ vector<string> ChimeraSlayerCommand::setParameters(){
                CommandParameter pdivergence("divergence", "Number", "", "1.007", "", "", "",false,false); parameters.push_back(pdivergence);
                CommandParameter pparents("parents", "Number", "", "3", "", "", "",false,false); parameters.push_back(pparents);
                CommandParameter pincrement("increment", "Number", "", "5", "", "", "",false,false); parameters.push_back(pincrement);
+               CommandParameter pblastlocation("blastlocation", "String", "", "", "", "", "",false,false); parameters.push_back(pblastlocation);
                CommandParameter pinputdir("inputdir", "String", "", "", "", "", "",false,false); parameters.push_back(pinputdir);
                CommandParameter poutputdir("outputdir", "String", "", "", "", "", "",false,false); parameters.push_back(poutputdir);
                CommandParameter psave("save", "Boolean", "", "F", "", "", "",false,false); parameters.push_back(psave);
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ string ChimeraSlayerCommand::getHelpString(){
                string helpString = "";
                helpString += "The chimera.slayer command reads a fastafile and referencefile and outputs potentially chimeric sequences.\n";
                helpString += "This command was modeled after the chimeraSlayer written by the Broad Institute.\n";
-               helpString += "The chimera.slayer command parameters are fasta, name, template, processors, trim, ksize, window, match, mismatch, divergence. minsim, mincov, minbs, minsnp, parents, search, iters, increment, numwanted, and realign.\n";
+               helpString += "The chimera.slayer command parameters are fasta, name, template, processors, trim, ksize, window, match, mismatch, divergence. minsim, mincov, minbs, minsnp, parents, search, iters, increment, numwanted, blastlocation and realign.\n";
                helpString += "The fasta parameter allows you to enter the fasta file containing your potentially chimeric sequences, and is required, unless you have a valid current fasta file. \n";
                helpString += "The name parameter allows you to provide a name file, if you are using reference=self. \n";
                helpString += "You may enter multiple fasta files by separating their names with dashes. ie. fasta=abrecovery.fasta-amazon.fasta \n";
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ string ChimeraSlayerCommand::getHelpString(){
                helpString += "The minsnp parameter allows you to specify percent of SNPs to sample on each side of breakpoint for computing bootstrap support (default: 10) \n";
                helpString += "The search parameter allows you to specify search method for finding the closest parent. Choices are blast, and kmer, default blast. \n";
                helpString += "The realign parameter allows you to realign the query to the potential parents. Choices are true or false, default true.  \n";
+               helpString += "The blastlocation parameter allows you to specify the location of your blast executable. By default mothur will look in ./blast/bin relative to mothur's executable.  \n";
                helpString += "If the save parameter is set to true the reference sequences will be saved in memory, to clear them later you can use the clear.memory command. Default=f.";
                helpString += "The chimera.slayer command should be in the following format: \n";
                helpString += "chimera.slayer(fasta=yourFastaFile, reference=yourTemplate, search=yourSearch) \n";
@@ -408,6 +409,43 @@ ChimeraSlayerCommand::ChimeraSlayerCommand(string option)  {
                        
                        temp = validParameter.validFile(parameters, "numwanted", false);                if (temp == "not found") { temp = "15"; }               
                        convert(temp, numwanted);
+                       
+                       blastlocation = validParameter.validFile(parameters, "blastlocation", false);   
+                       if (blastlocation == "not found") { blastlocation = ""; }
+                       else {
+                               //add / to name if needed
+                               string lastChar = blastlocation.substr(blastlocation.length()-1);
+#if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
+                               if (lastChar != "/") { blastlocation += "/"; }
+#else
+                               if (lastChar != "\\") { blastlocation += "\\"; }        
+#endif
+                               blastlocation = m->getFullPathName(blastlocation);
+                               string formatdbCommand = "";
+#if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
+                               formatdbCommand = blastlocation + "formatdb";   
+#else
+                               formatdbCommand = blastlocation + "formatdb.exe";
+#endif
+                               
+                               //test to make sure formatdb exists
+                               ifstream in;
+                               formatdbCommand = m->getFullPathName(formatdbCommand);
+                               int ableToOpen = m->openInputFile(formatdbCommand, in, "no error"); in.close();
+                               if(ableToOpen == 1) {   m->mothurOut("[ERROR]: " + formatdbCommand + " file does not exist. mothur requires formatdb.exe to run chimera.slayer."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); abort = true; }
+                               
+                               string blastCommand = "";
+#if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
+                               blastCommand = blastlocation + "megablast";     
+#else
+                               blastCommand = blastlocation + "megablast.exe";
+#endif
+                               //test to make sure formatdb exists
+                               ifstream in2;
+                               blastCommand = m->getFullPathName(blastCommand);
+                               ableToOpen = m->openInputFile(blastCommand, in2, "no error"); in2.close();
+                               if(ableToOpen == 1) {   m->mothurOut("[ERROR]: " + blastCommand + " file does not exist. mothur requires blastall.exe to run chimera.slayer."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); abort = true; }
+                       }
 
                        if ((search != "blast") && (search != "kmer")) { m->mothurOut(search + " is not a valid search."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); abort = true;  }
                        
@@ -431,9 +469,7 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::execute(){
                
                        int start = time(NULL); 
                        
-                       if (templatefile != "self") { //you want to run slayer with a refernce template
-                               chimera = new ChimeraSlayer(fastaFileNames[s], templatefile, trim, search, ksize, match, mismatch, window, divR, minSimilarity, minCoverage, minBS, minSNP, parents, iters, increment, numwanted, realign);     
-                       }else {
+                       if (templatefile == "self") { 
                                if (processors != 1) { m->mothurOut("When using template=self, mothur can only use 1 processor, continuing."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); processors = 1; }
                                string nameFile = "";
                                if (nameFileNames.size() != 0) { //you provided a namefile and we don't need to create one
@@ -445,7 +481,7 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::execute(){
                                        string inputString = "fasta=" + fastaFileNames[s];
                                        m->mothurOut("/******************************************/"); m->mothurOutEndLine(); 
                                        m->mothurOut("Running command: unique.seqs(" + inputString + ")"); m->mothurOutEndLine(); 
-                                                                
+                                       
                                        Command* uniqueCommand = new DeconvoluteCommand(inputString);
                                        uniqueCommand->execute();
                                        
@@ -461,19 +497,25 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::execute(){
                                
                                //sort fastafile by abundance, returns new sorted fastafile name
                                m->mothurOut("Sorting fastafile according to abundance..."); cout.flush(); 
-                               map<string, int> priority = sortFastaFile(fastaFileNames[s], nameFile);
+                               priority = sortFastaFile(fastaFileNames[s], nameFile);
                                m->mothurOut("Done."); m->mothurOutEndLine();
                                
                                if (m->control_pressed) {  for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {       m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        }  return 0;    }
-
-                               chimera = new ChimeraSlayer(fastaFileNames[s], templatefile, trim, priority, search, ksize, match, mismatch, window, divR, minSimilarity, minCoverage, minBS, minSNP, parents, iters, increment, numwanted, realign);   
                        }
-                               
+                       
                        if (outputDir == "") { outputDir = m->hasPath(fastaFileNames[s]);  }//if user entered a file with a path then preserve it                               
                        string outputFileName = outputDir + m->getRootName(m->getSimpleName(fastaFileNames[s])) + "slayer.chimera";
                        string accnosFileName = outputDir + m->getRootName(m->getSimpleName(fastaFileNames[s]))  + "slayer.accnos";
                        string trimFastaFileName = outputDir + m->getRootName(m->getSimpleName(fastaFileNames[s]))  + "slayer.fasta";
                        
+                       //create chimera here if you are mac or linux because fork will copy for you. Create in create processes instead if you are windows.
+                       #if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux) || USE_MPI
+                       if (templatefile != "self") { //you want to run slayer with a reference template
+                               chimera = new ChimeraSlayer(fastaFileNames[s], templatefile, trim, search, ksize, match, mismatch, window, divR, minSimilarity, minCoverage, minBS, minSNP, parents, iters, increment, numwanted, realign, blastlocation, rand());      
+                       }else {
+                               chimera = new ChimeraSlayer(fastaFileNames[s], templatefile, trim, priority, search, ksize, match, mismatch, window, divR, minSimilarity, minCoverage, minBS, minSNP, parents, iters, increment, numwanted, realign, blastlocation, rand());    
+                       }
+                       
                        if (m->control_pressed) { delete chimera; for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {        m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        }  return 0;    }
                        
                        if (chimera->getUnaligned()) { 
@@ -482,11 +524,29 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::execute(){
                                return 0; 
                        }
                        templateSeqsLength = chimera->getLength();
+                       #else
+                       if (processors == 1) {
+                               if (templatefile != "self") { //you want to run slayer with a reference template
+                                       chimera = new ChimeraSlayer(fastaFileNames[s], templatefile, trim, search, ksize, match, mismatch, window, divR, minSimilarity, minCoverage, minBS, minSNP, parents, iters, increment, numwanted, realign, blastlocation, rand());      
+                               }else {
+                                       chimera = new ChimeraSlayer(fastaFileNames[s], templatefile, trim, priority, search, ksize, match, mismatch, window, divR, minSimilarity, minCoverage, minBS, minSNP, parents, iters, increment, numwanted, realign, blastlocation, rand());    
+                               }
+                               
+                               if (m->control_pressed) { delete chimera; for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {        m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        }  return 0;    }
+                               
+                               if (chimera->getUnaligned()) { 
+                                       m->mothurOut("Your template sequences are different lengths, please correct."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); 
+                                       delete chimera;
+                                       return 0; 
+                               }
+                               templateSeqsLength = chimera->getLength();
+                       }
+                       #endif
                        
                #ifdef USE_MPI  
                        int pid, numSeqsPerProcessor; 
                                int tag = 2001;
-                               vector<unsigned long int> MPIPos;
+                               vector<unsigned long long> MPIPos;
                                
                                MPI_Status status; 
                                MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &pid); //find out who we are
@@ -598,79 +658,67 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::execute(){
                                MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD); //make everyone wait - just in case
                                
                #else
-                       ofstream outHeader;
-                       string tempHeader = outputDir + m->getRootName(m->getSimpleName(fastaFileNames[s])) + "slayer.chimeras.tempHeader";
-                       m->openOutputFile(tempHeader, outHeader);
-                       
-                       chimera->printHeader(outHeader);
-                       outHeader.close();
-                       
-                       vector<unsigned long int> positions = m->divideFile(fastaFileNames[s], processors);
-                               
-                       for (int i = 0; i < (positions.size()-1); i++) {
-                               lines.push_back(new linePair(positions[i], positions[(i+1)]));
-                       }       
-
                        //break up file
-                       #if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
-                               if(processors == 1){
-                                       numSeqs = driver(lines[0], outputFileName, fastaFileNames[s], accnosFileName, trimFastaFileName);
-                                       
-                                       int numNoParents = chimera->getNumNoParents();
-                                       if (numNoParents == numSeqs) { m->mothurOut("[WARNING]: megablast returned 0 potential parents for all your sequences. This could be due to formatdb.exe not being setup properly, please check formatdb.log for errors."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); }
-                                       
-                                       if (m->control_pressed) { outputTypes.clear(); if (trim) { m->mothurRemove(trimFastaFileName); } m->mothurRemove(outputFileName); m->mothurRemove(tempHeader); m->mothurRemove(accnosFileName); for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {  m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        } for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {  delete lines[i];  }  lines.clear(); delete chimera; return 0; }
-                                       
-                               }else{
-                                       processIDS.resize(0);
-                                       
-                                       numSeqs = createProcesses(outputFileName, fastaFileNames[s], accnosFileName, trimFastaFileName); 
+                       vector<unsigned long long> positions; 
+#if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
+                       positions = m->divideFile(fastaFileNames[s], processors);
+                       for (int i = 0; i < (positions.size()-1); i++) {        lines.push_back(new linePair(positions[i], positions[(i+1)]));  }
+#else
+                       if (processors == 1) {
+                               lines.push_back(new linePair(0, 1000));
+                       }else {
+                               positions = m->setFilePosFasta(fastaFileNames[s], numSeqs); 
                                
-                                       rename((outputFileName + toString(processIDS[0]) + ".temp").c_str(), outputFileName.c_str());
-                                       rename((accnosFileName + toString(processIDS[0]) + ".temp").c_str(), accnosFileName.c_str());
-                                       if (trim) {  rename((trimFastaFileName + toString(processIDS[0]) + ".temp").c_str(), trimFastaFileName.c_str()); }
-                                               
-                                       //append output files
-                                       for(int i=1;i<processors;i++){
-                                               m->appendFiles((outputFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"), outputFileName);
-                                               m->mothurRemove((outputFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"));
-                                       }
-                                       
-                                       //append output files
-                                       for(int i=1;i<processors;i++){
-                                               m->appendFiles((accnosFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"), accnosFileName);
-                                               m->mothurRemove((accnosFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"));
-                                       }
-                                       
-                                       if (trim) {
-                                               for(int i=1;i<processors;i++){
-                                                       m->appendFiles((trimFastaFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"), trimFastaFileName);
-                                                       m->mothurRemove((trimFastaFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"));
-                                               }
-                                       }
-                                       
-                                       if (m->control_pressed) { outputTypes.clear(); if (trim) { m->mothurRemove(trimFastaFileName); } m->mothurRemove(outputFileName); m->mothurRemove(accnosFileName); for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {       m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        } for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {  delete lines[i];  }  lines.clear(); delete chimera; return 0; }
+                               //figure out how many sequences you have to process
+                               int numSeqsPerProcessor = numSeqs / processors;
+                               for (int i = 0; i < processors; i++) {
+                                       int startIndex =  i * numSeqsPerProcessor;
+                                       if(i == (processors - 1)){      numSeqsPerProcessor = numSeqs - i * numSeqsPerProcessor;        }
+                                       lines.push_back(new linePair(positions[startIndex], numSeqsPerProcessor));
                                }
-
-                       #else
+                       }
+#endif
+                       
+                       if(processors == 1){
                                numSeqs = driver(lines[0], outputFileName, fastaFileNames[s], accnosFileName, trimFastaFileName);
                                
                                int numNoParents = chimera->getNumNoParents();
                                if (numNoParents == numSeqs) { m->mothurOut("[WARNING]: megablast returned 0 potential parents for all your sequences. This could be due to formatdb.exe not being setup properly, please check formatdb.log for errors."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); }
-
                                
-                               if (m->control_pressed) { outputTypes.clear(); if (trim) { m->mothurRemove(trimFastaFileName); } m->mothurRemove(outputFileName); m->mothurRemove(tempHeader); m->mothurRemove(accnosFileName); for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {  m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        } for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {  delete lines[i];  }  lines.clear(); delete chimera; return 0; }
+                               if (m->control_pressed) { outputTypes.clear(); if (trim) { m->mothurRemove(trimFastaFileName); } m->mothurRemove(outputFileName);  m->mothurRemove(accnosFileName); for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {      m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        } for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {  delete lines[i];  }  lines.clear(); delete chimera; return 0; }
                                
-                       #endif
+                       }else{
+                               processIDS.resize(0);
+                               
+                               numSeqs = createProcesses(outputFileName, fastaFileNames[s], accnosFileName, trimFastaFileName); 
                        
-                       m->appendFiles(outputFileName, tempHeader);
-               
-                       m->mothurRemove(outputFileName);
-                       rename(tempHeader.c_str(), outputFileName.c_str());
+                               rename((outputFileName + toString(processIDS[0]) + ".temp").c_str(), outputFileName.c_str());
+                               rename((accnosFileName + toString(processIDS[0]) + ".temp").c_str(), accnosFileName.c_str());
+                               if (trim) {  rename((trimFastaFileName + toString(processIDS[0]) + ".temp").c_str(), trimFastaFileName.c_str()); }
+                                       
+                               //append output files
+                               for(int i=1;i<processIDS.size();i++){
+                                       m->appendFiles((outputFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"), outputFileName);
+                                       m->mothurRemove((outputFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"));
+                                       
+                                       m->appendFiles((accnosFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"), accnosFileName);
+                                       m->mothurRemove((accnosFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"));
+                                       
+                                       if (trim) {
+                                               m->appendFiles((trimFastaFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"), trimFastaFileName);
+                                               m->mothurRemove((trimFastaFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".temp"));
+                                       }
+                               }
+                               
+                               if (m->control_pressed) { outputTypes.clear(); if (trim) { m->mothurRemove(trimFastaFileName); } m->mothurRemove(outputFileName); m->mothurRemove(accnosFileName); for (int j = 0; j < outputNames.size(); j++) {       m->mothurRemove(outputNames[j]);        } for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {  delete lines[i];  }  lines.clear(); delete chimera; return 0; }
+                       }
+
                        
                #endif
-                       delete chimera;
                        
+                       #if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux) || USE_MPI
+                       delete chimera;
+                       #endif
                        
                        for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {  delete lines[i];  }  lines.clear();
                        
@@ -725,6 +773,8 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::driver(linePair* filePos, string outputFName, string f
                m->openInputFile(filename, inFASTA);
 
                inFASTA.seekg(filePos->start);
+               
+               if (filePos->start == 0) { chimera->printHeader(out); }
 
                bool done = false;
                int count = 0;
@@ -799,7 +849,7 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::driver(linePair* filePos, string outputFName, string f
                        }
                        
                        #if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
-                               unsigned long int pos = inFASTA.tellg();
+                               unsigned long long pos = inFASTA.tellg();
                                if ((pos == -1) || (pos >= filePos->end)) { break; }
                        #else
                                if (inFASTA.eof()) { break; }
@@ -826,7 +876,7 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::driver(linePair* filePos, string outputFName, string f
 }
 //**********************************************************************************************************************
 #ifdef USE_MPI
-int ChimeraSlayerCommand::driverMPI(int start, int num, MPI_File& inMPI, MPI_File& outMPI, MPI_File& outAccMPI, MPI_File& outFastaMPI, vector<unsigned long int>& MPIPos){
+int ChimeraSlayerCommand::driverMPI(int start, int num, MPI_File& inMPI, MPI_File& outMPI, MPI_File& outAccMPI, MPI_File& outFastaMPI, vector<unsigned long long>& MPIPos){
        try {                           
                MPI_Status status; 
                int pid;
@@ -954,10 +1004,11 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::driverMPI(int start, int num, MPI_File& inMPI, MPI_Fil
 
 int ChimeraSlayerCommand::createProcesses(string outputFileName, string filename, string accnos, string fasta) {
        try {
-#if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
                int process = 0;
                int num = 0;
+               int numNoParents = 0;
                
+#if defined (__APPLE__) || (__MACH__) || (linux) || (__linux)
                //loop through and create all the processes you want
                while (process != processors) {
                        int pid = fork();
@@ -988,7 +1039,6 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::createProcesses(string outputFileName, string filename
                        wait(&temp);
                }
                
-               int numNoParents = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < processIDS.size(); i++) {
                        ifstream in;
                        string tempFile =  outputFileName + toString(processIDS[i]) + ".num.temp";
@@ -996,11 +1046,42 @@ int ChimeraSlayerCommand::createProcesses(string outputFileName, string filename
                        if (!in.eof()) { int tempNum = 0; int tempNumParents = 0; in >> tempNum >> tempNumParents; num += tempNum; numNoParents += tempNumParents; }
                        in.close(); m->mothurRemove(tempFile);
                }
+#else
                
-               if (num == numNoParents) {  m->mothurOut("[WARNING]: megablast returned 0 potential parents for all your sequences. This could be due to formatdb.exe not being setup properly, please check formatdb.log for errors."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); }
+               //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+               //Windows version shared memory, so be careful when passing variables through the slayerData struct. 
+               //Above fork() will clone, so memory is separate, but that's not the case with windows, 
+               //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+               
+               vector<slayerData*> pDataArray; 
+               DWORD   dwThreadIdArray[processors];
+               HANDLE  hThreadArray[processors]; 
+               
+               //Create processor worker threads.
+               for( int i=0; i<processors; i++ ){
+                       string extension = toString(i) + ".temp";
+                       slayerData* tempslayer = new slayerData((outputFileName + extension), (fasta + extension), (accnos + extension), filename, templatefile, search, blastlocation, trimera, trim, realign, m, lines[i]->start, lines[i]->end, ksize, match, mismatch, window, minSimilarity, minCoverage, minBS, minSNP, parents, iters, increment, numwanted, divR, priority, i);
+                       pDataArray.push_back(tempslayer);
+                       processIDS.push_back(i);
+                       
+                       //MySeqSumThreadFunction is in header. It must be global or static to work with the threads.
+                       //default security attributes, thread function name, argument to thread function, use default creation flags, returns the thread identifier
+                       hThreadArray[i] = CreateThread(NULL, 0, MySlayerThreadFunction, pDataArray[i], 0, &dwThreadIdArray[i]);   
+               }
+                               
+               //Wait until all threads have terminated.
+               WaitForMultipleObjects(processors, hThreadArray, TRUE, INFINITE);
                
+               //Close all thread handles and free memory allocations.
+               for(int i=0; i < pDataArray.size(); i++){
+                       num += pDataArray[i]->count;
+                       numNoParents += pDataArray[i]->numNoParents;
+                       CloseHandle(hThreadArray[i]);
+                       delete pDataArray[i];
+               }
+#endif 
+               if (num == numNoParents) {  m->mothurOut("[WARNING]: megablast returned 0 potential parents for all your sequences. This could be due to formatdb.exe not being setup properly, please check formatdb.log for errors."); m->mothurOutEndLine(); }
                return num;
-#endif         
        }
        catch(exception& e) {
                m->errorOut(e, "ChimeraSlayerCommand", "createProcesses");