diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 95ca346e1cee0996c2c85feca8d08d6d79f9ba1f..3dbb78e6e8ddcd4b22991484bae4bddd9bb32bdb 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ makeBigWig:
 makeFeatureCounts:
   stage: unit
   script:
-  - singularity run 'docker://bicf/subread2:2.0.0' featureCounts -R SAM -p -G /project/BICF/BICF_Core/shared/gudmap/references/GRCh38.p12.v31/genome.fna -T `nproc` -a /project/BICF/BICF_Core/shared/gudmap/references/GRCh38.p12.v31/genome.gtf -o Q-Y5JA_1M.se.featureCounts ./test_data/bam/small/Q-Y5JA_1M.se.sorted.deduped.bam 
+  - singularity run 'docker://bicf/subread2:2.0.0' featureCounts -R SAM -p -G /project/BICF/BICF_Core/shared/gudmap/references/GRCh38.p12.v31/genome.fna -T `nproc` -s 1 -a /project/BICF/BICF_Core/shared/gudmap/references/GRCh38.p12.v31/genome.gtf -o Q-Y5JA_1M.se.featureCounts -g 'gene name' --primary --ignoreDup -B ./test_data/bam/small/Q-Y5JA_1M.se.sorted.deduped.bam 
   - singularity run 'docker://bicf/subread2:2.0.0' Rscript ./workflow/scripts/calculateTPM.R --count Q-Y5JA_1M.se.featureCounts
   - pytest -m makeFeatureCounts
 
diff --git a/workflow/rna-seq.nf b/workflow/rna-seq.nf
index eaeff79747ff0e111fbfccd07b2506b7b57842d6..22852231d9d29bfda93b65fecf43cf77df98c51d 100644
--- a/workflow/rna-seq.nf
+++ b/workflow/rna-seq.nf
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ process getData {
     echo "LOG: \${replicate}" >> ${repRID}.getData.err
     
     # unzip bagit
-    unzip ${bagit} 2>> ${repRID}.getData.err 1>> ${repRID}.getData.out 2>> ${repRID}.getData.err
+    unzip ${bagit} 1>> ${repRID}.getData.out 2>> ${repRID}.getData.err
     echo "LOG: replicate bdbag unzipped" >> ${repRID}.getData.err
     
     # bagit fetch fastq"s only and rename by repRID
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ process alignData {
     elif [ "${endsManual_alignData}" == "pe" ]
     then
       echo "LOG: running Hisat2 with paired-end settings" >> ${repRID}.align.err
-      hisat2 -p `nproc` --add-chrname --un-gz ${repRID}.unal.gz -S ${repRID}.sam -x hisat2/genome ${stranded_alignData} --no-mixed --no-discordant -1 ${fastq[0]} -2 ${fastq[1]} --summary-file ${repRID}.alignSummary.txt --new-summary 1>> ${repRID}.align.out 2> ${repRID}.align.err
+      hisat2 -p `nproc` --add-chrname --un-gz ${repRID}.unal.gz -S ${repRID}.sam -x hisat2/genome ${stranded_alignData} --no-mixed --no-discordant -1 ${fastq[0]} -2 ${fastq[1]} --summary-file ${repRID}.alignSummary.txt --new-summary 1>> ${repRID}.align.out 2>> ${repRID}.align.err
     fi
     
     #Convert the output sam file to a sorted bam file using Samtools
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ process makeFeatureCounts {
       featureCounts -R SAM -p -G ./genome.fna -T `nproc` -s \${stranding} -a ./genome.gtf -o ${repRID}.featureCounts -g 'gene_name' --primary --ignoreDup ${repRID}.sorted.deduped.bam 1>> ${repRID}.makeFeatureCounts.out 2>> ${repRID}.makeFeatureCounts.err
     elif [ "${endsManual_featureCounts }" == "pe" ]
     then
-      featureCounts -R SAM -p -G ./genmome.fna -T `nproc` -s \${stranding} -p -a ./genome.gtf -o ${repRID}.featureCounts -g 'gene_name' --primary --ignoreDup -B ${repRID}.sorted.deduped.bam 1>> ${repRID}.makeFeatureCounts.out 2>> ${repRID}.makeFeatureCounts.err
+      featureCounts -R SAM -p -G ./genmome.fna -T `nproc` -s \${stranding} -a ./genome.gtf -o ${repRID}.featureCounts -g 'gene_name' --primary --ignoreDup -B ${repRID}.sorted.deduped.bam 1>> ${repRID}.makeFeatureCounts.out 2>> ${repRID}.makeFeatureCounts.err
     fi
 
     #Calculate TMP from the resulting featureCounts table