When will DROP be retriggered?

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DROP is a based on Snakemake. The pipeline will be (partially) retriggered if a script or the input of a script changes. In addition, all the next steps of the script will also be rerun.
DROP also uses parameters (mostly coming from the sample annotation and config files). Since Snakemake 7.8 on, if the parameters of a script were updated, the pipeline also reruns. See more info here. To avoid this behaviour, execute DROP by adding --rerun-triggers mtime to the Snakemake rule.
If you changed the parameters and DROP is not rerunning, you can force the pipeline to be run by executing:
snakemake -f {output_file} -n, where {output_file} is the output file of the script using the intended parameter. The -f parameter stands for force.
Executing snakemake -nF {module} can be helpful to identify the full path of the {output_file}, where {module} is e.g. aberrantExpression