From b6cc69c6b2544bd5f274fd242d18693a8faaa1e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maximilian Schmidt <max.schmidt@fz-juelich.de>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 15:23:34 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Mention snakemake --touch in README

---
 README.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2b7747c..5e9304e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -83,11 +83,12 @@ basic analysis and plotting.
 The `figures` folder contains a subfolder with all scripts necessary to produce
 the figures from [1]. The scripts for [2] and [3] will follow soon.
 If snakemake is installed, the figures can be produced by executing
-`snakemake` in the respective folder:
+`snakemake` in the respective folder, e.g.:
 	
 	cd figures/Schmidt2018/
 	snakemake
 
+Note that it can sometimes be necessary to execute `snakemake --touch` to avoid unnecessary rule executions. See https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/snakefiles/rules.html#flag-files for more details.
 
 ## Running a simulation
 
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