Issues with Result Aggregation in looper runp and looper report！

[zhongzheng1999]

Hello, I've encountered some puzzling issues while using PEPATAC and would appreciate any help or insights.

Issues Encountered during PEPATAC Pipeline Tutorial Step-by-Step Guide：
https://pepatac.databio.org/en/latest/tutorial/

Despite successfully obtaining Peak Calling results, I've encountered a perplexing situation. After sequentially running looper run, looper runp, and looper report, I noticed the emergence of a folder named default_project_record_identifier in the result_pipeline directory, containing only an empty stat.yaml file. The appearance of this folder seems unexpected, and I'm unsure if anyone can provide an explanation or guidance.

Additionally, upon running looper report, an index.html file was generated. However, I observed that within this HTML file, the summary is also displayed as a sample. This has left me somewhat perplexed, and I'm uncertain whether this is intended behavior or if I might have encountered a specific issue. I would appreciate any explanations or solutions regarding this phenomenon.

If anyone has experience or insights into these issues, please feel free to share your thoughts. Thank you!

[donaldcampbelljr]

Hi, Thank you for posting your concerns.

1. The folder default_project_record_identifier is produced upon running looper runp. It can be safely ignored. This is a workaround with Looper when running project-level pipelines. I've opened an issue regarding it so that we can implement this functionality more gracefully in the future: Looper runp produces default_project_record_identifier folder with an empty stats.yaml pepkit/looper#471

2. summary is a project-level record identifier that is used for reporting project-level results. We are currently intentionally displaying summary in the report table along with the samples, but we plan to only show sample-level records in the future: pipestat summarize: project level items should not be placed in the same table as the sample level items pepkit/pipestat#150