diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 69bc684d2a83a6cd42879e36b1c0369572ef2112..8293fc6b2f7e5495005089809c890388f58ea43f 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ dedupData:
   except:
     - merge_requests
   script:
+  - singularity run 'docker://bicf/gudmaprbkdedup:2.0.0' samtools --version > version_samtools.txt
+  - singularity run 'docker://bicf/gudmaprbkdedup:2.0.0' java -jar /picard/build/libs/picard.jar MarkDuplicates --version &> version_markdups.txt; if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then (exit 0); fi
   - singularity run 'docker://bicf/gudmaprbkdedup:2.0.0' java -jar /picard/build/libs/picard.jar MarkDuplicates I=./test_data/bam/small/Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.bam O=Q-Y5F6_1M.se.deduped.bam M=Q-Y5F6_1M.se.deduped.Metrics.txt REMOVE_DUPLICATES=true
   - singularity run 'docker://bicf/gudmaprbkdedup:2.0.0' samtools sort -@ 20 -O BAM -o Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.deduped.bam ./test_data/bam/small/Q-Y5F6_1M.se.deduped.bam
   - singularity run 'docker://bicf/gudmaprbkdedup:2.0.0' samtools index -@ 20 -b ./test_data/bam/small/Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.deduped.bam Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.deduped.bam.bai
@@ -181,7 +183,6 @@ dedupData:
       echo "samtools view -b Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.deduped.bam ${i} > Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.deduped.${i}.bam; samtools index -@ 20 -b Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.deduped.${i}.bam Q-Y5F6_1M.se.sorted.deduped.${i}.bam.bai;";
       done | singularity run 'docker://bicf/gudmaprbkdedup:2.0.0' parallel -j 20 -k
   - pytest -m dedupData
-  - singularity run 'docker://bicf/gudmaprbkdedup:2.0.0' samtools --version > version_samtools.txt
   artifacts:
     name: "$CI_JOB_NAME"
     when: always