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+## Generate Raw Counts using FeatureCounts/HTSeqCounts 
+
+## Load package Subread (packge within which FeatureCounts is present)
+
++ ml Subread/1.6.4-foss-2015b FeatureCounts
+
+## Features used in FeatureCounts : 
+## -s : reversely stranded 
+## -T : number of threads used 
+## -a : reference genome 
+## -o : output file 
+
++ featureCounts \
++ --a "path to reference genome" \
++ --T 6 \
++ --o "path to output file" \
++ --s 2
+