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+params {
+  outdir = "result_test_new"
+  // input for hashing-based deconvolution
+  hto_matrix_raw = "$projectDir/test_data/hto"
+  hto_matrix_filtered = "$projectDir/test_data/hto"
+  rna_matrix_raw = "$projectDir/test_data/rna"
+  rna_matrix_filtered = "$projectDir/test_data/rna"
+
+  souporcell = "False"
+
+  // input for genotype-based deconvolution
+  bam = "$projectDir/test_data/jurkat_293t_downsampled_n500_full_bam.bam"
+  bai = "$projectDir/test_data/jurkat_293t_downsampled_n500_full_bam.bam.bai"
+  barcodes = "$projectDir/test_data/barcodes.tsv"
+  fasta = "$projectDir/test_data/refdata-cellranger-hg19-3.0.0/fasta/genome.fa"
+  fasta_index = "$projectDir/test_data/refdata-cellranger-hg19-3.0.0/fasta/genome.fa.fai"
+  nsample = 2
+  common_variants_scSplit = "$projectDir/test_data/common_variants_hg19_list.vcf"
+  common_variants_souporcell =  "$projectDir/test_data/common_variants_hg19.vcf"
+  common_variants_freemuxlet = "$projectDir/test_data/jurkat_293t_exons_only.vcf.withAF.vcf.gz"
+  common_variants_cellsnp  = "$projectDir/test_data/genome1K.phase3.SNP_AF5e2.chr1toX.hg19.vcf.gz"
+  vcf_donor = "$projectDir/test_data/jurkat_293t_exons_only.vcf.withAF.vcf"
+
+  // Call freebayes on chr 1 and chr 2 only to speed up run time
+  region = "1;2"
+
+  // donor genotype file provided by popscle doesnt work on souporcell
+  use_known_genotype = "False"
+
+}