diff --git a/docker-compose-local.yml b/docker-compose-local.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2420f28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose-local.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+version: "3.8"
+services:
+ 
+
+  # Elasticsearch Docker Images: https://www.docker.elastic.co/
+  elasticsearch:
+    mem_limit: 1G
+    mem_reservation: 128M 
+    cpus: 0.7
+    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.5.0
+    container_name: elasticsearch
+    environment:
+      - xpack.security.enabled=false
+      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
+      - discovery.type=single-node
+    ulimits:
+      memlock:
+        soft: -1
+        hard: -1
+      nofile:
+        soft: 65536
+        hard: 65536
+    cap_add:
+      - IPC_LOCK
+    volumes:
+      - elasticsearch-data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
+    ports:
+      - 9200:9200
+      - 9300:9300
+
+  kibana:
+    container_name: kibana
+    image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.5.0
+    environment:
+      SERVER_NAME: kibana
+      ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS: http://elasticsearch:9200
+    ports:
+      - 5601:5601
+    depends_on:
+      - elasticsearch
+
+volumes:
+  elasticsearch-data:
+    driver: local
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diff --git a/log_import_error b/log_import_error
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 467d8bb..5d68ece 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ ijson==3.1.4
 pydantic==1.10.2
 python-dotenv==0.21.0
 requests==2.28.1
+pandas
diff --git a/src/analysis/find_duplicates.py b/src/analysis/find_duplicates.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71171ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/analysis/find_duplicates.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import argparse
+import json
+import csv
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+import pandas as pd
+
+def group_columns(file_path):
+    df = pd.read_csv(file_path, delimiter='\t', dtype=str)
+    
+    col_hashes = {col: hash(tuple(df[col])) for col in df.columns}
+    
+    groups = defaultdict(list)
+    for col, col_hash in col_hashes.items():
+        groups[col_hash].append(col)
+    
+    duplicate_groups = {f"group{i+1}": cols for i, cols in enumerate(groups.values()) if len(cols) > 1}
+
+    return duplicate_groups
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("file_path", type=str, help="Path to the TSV file.")
+    
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    result = group_columns(args.file_path)
+    
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=4))
+    
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
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diff --git a/src/convert_to_json.py b/src/convert_to_json.py
index 9c363fd..3e7dfb3 100644
--- a/src/convert_to_json.py
+++ b/src/convert_to_json.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import argparse
 import shutil
 import json
-import shutil
 from os import path as ospath
 
 def main():
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ def tmp_print(*argv):
 def parse_line(line, data_parser, header):
     d = {}
     for idx in range(len(header)):
-        if idx >= len(line) or line[idx] == ".":            
+        if idx >= len(line) or line[idx] == "":            
             continue
         k = header[idx]
         try:
@@ -122,7 +121,7 @@ def convert_file(in_filepath, out_dir, es_index):
                 da_list.append(data)
             except:
                 error.write(cols)
-            if count % 50000 == 0:
+            if count % 100000 == 0:
                 write_to_json(ospath.join(out_dir, str(out_filename) + '.json'), da_list)
                 out_filename += 1
                 da_list = []
@@ -139,7 +138,8 @@ def convert_file(in_filepath, out_dir, es_index):
     start_time = time.time()
     tmp_print.l = 0
 
-    main()
+    #main()
     
     find_error = init_find_error()
-    start_time = time.time()
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+    start_time = time.time()
+        
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diff --git a/src/db_batch.template b/src/db_batch.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd7b50d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/db_batch.template
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash 
+#SBATCH --ntasks=1 
+#SBATCH --time=50:00:00
+#SBATCH --account=pdthomas_136
+#SBATCH --partition=thomas
+#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=20G
+#SBATCH --mail-type=end,fail
+#SBATCH --mail-user=mushayah@usc.edu
+
+
+base_dir='$BASE_DIR'
+in_file='$IN_FILE'
+out_dir='$OUT_DIR'
+es_index='annoq-annotations'
+
+module load python/3.9.12
+python3 --version
+source venv/bin/activate
+
+echo "python3 convert_to_json.py -i $in_file -o $out_dir --es_index $es_index"
+echo start at `date` 
+   python3 $base_dir/annoq-database/src/convert_to_json.py -i $in_file -o $out_dir --es_index $es_index
+echo end at `date`
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diff --git a/src/hrc_batch.template b/src/hrc_batch.template
deleted file mode 100644
index 568b642..0000000
--- a/src/hrc_batch.template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash 
-#SBATCH --ntasks=1 
-#SBATCH --time=50:00:00
-#SBATCH --account=pdthomas_136
-#SBATCH --partition=thomas
-#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=90G
-
-in_file='$IN_FILE'
-out_dir='$OUT_DIR'
-es_index='annoq-test'
-
-module load python/3.9.2
-python3 --version
-source venv/bin/activate
-
-echo "python3 convert_to_json.py -i $in_file -o $out_dir --es_index $es_index"
-echo start at `date`    
-   python3 convert_to_json.py -i $in_file -o $out_dir --es_index $es_index
-echo end at `date`
-
diff --git a/src/index_es_json.py b/src/index_es_json.py
index 70fbe20..2e28e2b 100644
--- a/src/index_es_json.py
+++ b/src/index_es_json.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def bulk_load_parallel(directory):
 
 def bulk_load(directory):
    
-    helpers.bulk(es, load_json(directory), index=settings.ANNOQ_ANNOTATIONS_INDEX, chunk_size=5000, request_timeout=1000)
+    helpers.bulk(es, load_json(directory), index=settings.ANNOQ_ANNOTATIONS_INDEX, chunk_size=10000, request_timeout=1000)
  
 
 def bulk_load_streaming(directory):
diff --git a/src/run_jobs.sh b/src/run_jobs.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40f680a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/run_jobs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/bash 
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
+  echo "Error: Exactly 2 arguments are required."
+  echo "Usage: $0 <work_name> <wgsa_dir>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+work_name=$1
+base_dir=$2
+
+echo "running work name: $work_name using base dir: $base_dir"
+
+in_dir=$base_dir/annoq-data-builder/wgsa_add/output/$work_name
+out_dir=$base_dir/annoq-database/output/$work_name
+slurm_dir=$base_dir/annoq-database/slurm/$work_name
+sbatch_template=$base_dir/annoq-database/src/db_batch.template
+
+rm -rf $out_dir $slurm_dir
+
+mkdir -p $slurm_dir
+mkdir -p $out_dir
+
+for fp in `ls $in_dir` ; do
+    echo $in_dir/$fp
+    mkdir -p $out_dir/${fp}
+    BASE_DIR=$base_dir IN_FILE=$in_dir/${fp} OUT_DIR=$out_dir/${fp} \
+    envsubst '$BASE_DIR, $IN_FILE, $OUT_DIR' < $sbatch_template > $slurm_dir/slurm_${fp}.slurm
+    sbatch $slurm_dir/slurm_${fp}.slurm
+done
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diff --git a/run_jobs.sh b/src/run_jobs_local.sh
similarity index 59%
rename from run_jobs.sh
rename to src/run_jobs_local.sh
index 5858726..06819e7 100644
--- a/run_jobs.sh
+++ b/src/run_jobs_local.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash 
 
-
-in_dir='./../WGSA_add/output/hrc_sample'
-out_dir='output/hrc_es_jsons'
-slurm_dir='slurm'
-
-#local testing
-#in_dir='./../annoq-data/hrc-test'
-#out_dir='./../annoq-data/tmp11_'
-#slurm_dir='./../annoq-data/slurm2'
+in_dir='./../annoq-data/hrc-test'
+out_dir='./../annoq-data/tmp11_'
+slurm_dir='./../annoq-data/slurm2'
 
 mkdir -p $slurm_dir
 mkdir -p $out_dir