diff --git a/Snakefile b/Snakefile
index e45437c..8353dbc 100644
--- a/Snakefile
+++ b/Snakefile
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ minCoverage = leafcutterOpt["minCoverage"]
 isChimera = "hpc.mssm.edu" in socket.getfqdn()
 
 # not sure if this works when running in serial on interactive node
-if isChimera:
-    shell.prefix('export PS1="";source activate snakemake;ml R/3.6.0;')
+#if isChimera:
+#    shell.prefix('export PS1="";source activate snakemake;ml R/3.6.0;')
 #else:
 #shell.prefix('conda activate leafcutterpipeline;')
 
@@ -156,11 +156,11 @@ rule extractJunctions:
     output:
         'junctions/{samples}' + juncSuffix
     shell:
-        #"samtools index {input};"  redundant if indexes are present
-        #"regtools junctions extract -a 8 -m 50 -M 500000 -s {stranded} -o {output} {input}"
+        "samtools index {input};" # redundant if indexes are present
+        "regtools junctions extract -a 8 -i 50 -I 500000 -s {stranded} -o {output} {input.bam}"
         # conda version of regtools uses i and I instead of m and M 
-        "ml regtools/0.5.1; "
-        "regtools junctions extract -a 8 -m 50 -M 500000 -s {stranded} -o {output} {input.bam}"
+        # "ml regtools/0.5.1; "
+        # "regtools junctions extract -a 8 -m 50 -M 500000 -s {stranded} -o {output} {input.bam}"
 
 
 # remove weird contigs that cause add_chr() to break by adding "chr" to normal chr names
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ rule junctionQC:
     params:
         script = "scripts/cluster_QC.R"
     shell:
-        "ml R/3.6.0; "
+        #"ml R/3.6.0; "
         "Rscript {params.script} "
         "--outFolder {outFolder} "
         "--dataCode {dataCode} "
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ rule leafcutterDS:
     params:
         n_threads = leafcutterOpt['n_threads']
     shell:  
-        'ml R/3.6.0; ' 
+        #'ml R/3.6.0; ' 
         'Rscript {leafcutterPath}/scripts/leafcutter_ds.R '
         '   --output_prefix {outFolder}{wildcards.contrast}/{dataCode}_{wildcards.contrast} '
         '   --num_threads {params.n_threads} '
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ rule getTerminalExons:
     input:
         refFolder + refFile
     params:
-        gtftogenepred= "/sc/arion/projects/ad-omics/data/software/UCSC/gtfToGenePred",
+        gtftogenepred= "gtfToGenePred",
         genepredtobed = "scripts/genepred_to_bed.py",
         get_regions = "scripts/create_regions_from_gencode.R",
         outFolder = refFolder + refCode + "/"
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ rule getTerminalExons:
         "{params.gtftogenepred} {input} {output.genepred};"
         "python {params.genepredtobed} --first_exon {output.genepred} > {output.starts} ; "
         "python {params.genepredtobed} --last_exon {output.genepred} > {output.ends}; "
-        "mkdir {params.outFolder}; "
+        "mkdir -p {params.outFolder}; "
         "Rscript {params.get_regions} {input} {params.outFolder}"
 
 # prepare results for shiny visualisation
diff --git a/example/config.yaml b/example/config.yaml
index 2e7c90c..6fc0077 100644
--- a/example/config.yaml
+++ b/example/config.yaml
@@ -36,9 +36,11 @@ stranded: 0
 
 # cluster using regtools junctions or STAR-like junctions
 # regtools or rapid
+
 clusterRegtools: True
+junctionQC: False 
 
-leafcutterPath: '/hpc/users/humphj04/software/leafcutter'
+leafcutterPath: '/app/leafcutter'
 
 leafcutter:
         # clustering options
@@ -58,7 +60,7 @@ leafcutter:
 python3Path: 'python3'
 python2Path: 'python2'
 
-refFolder: "/sc/arion/projects/ad-omics/data/references/hg38_reference/GENCODE/"
-refFile: "gencode.v30.annotation.gtf.gz"
-refCode: "gencode_hg38_v30"
+refFolder: "/app/reference/"
+refFile: "gencode.v38.annotation.gtf.gz"
+refCode: "gencode_hg38_v38"
 
diff --git a/example/data/TDP43_knockdown_1_unique_kcnq2.bam b/example/data/TDP43_knockdown_1_unique_kcnq2.bam
index b087217..4df0a3f 100644
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diff --git a/example/data/TDP43_knockdown_2_unique_kcnq2.bam b/example/data/TDP43_knockdown_2_unique_kcnq2.bam
index f318782..03e9cc1 100644
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diff --git a/example/data/TDP43_knockdown_3_unique_kcnq2.bam b/example/data/TDP43_knockdown_3_unique_kcnq2.bam
index 7528274..f5c4f02 100644
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diff --git a/example/data/control_scramble_1_unique_kcnq2.bam b/example/data/control_scramble_1_unique_kcnq2.bam
index 6f90c44..444c231 100644
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diff --git a/example/data/control_scramble_2_unique_kcnq2.bam b/example/data/control_scramble_2_unique_kcnq2.bam
index 33601e7..ff6bfa6 100644
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diff --git a/example/data/control_scramble_3_unique_kcnq2.bam b/example/data/control_scramble_3_unique_kcnq2.bam
index 9e778d4..27a97d6 100644
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diff --git a/example/run_snakemake.sh b/example/run_snakemake.sh
index 3ac94db..b978b86 100644
--- a/example/run_snakemake.sh
+++ b/example/run_snakemake.sh
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 #ml R
 # this version of R has the current version of leafcutter
 
-snakemake  -s ../Snakefile --configfile config.yaml
+snakemake -c1 -s ../Snakefile --configfile config.yaml