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I am using this bioinformatics template. I am trying to compile it but can't seem to resolve these two errors.

About the undefined control sequence error, it seems it is caused by a wrong command. \maketitle is valid but it is still giving an error.

About the paragraph ended before \abstract was complete error, I read it could be because of imbalanced braces. That's not the case either.

Here's the code I am using.

\documentclass{bioinfo}
\copyrightyear{2005}
\pubyear{2005}

\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\firstpage{1}

\title[short Title]{This is a title}
\author[Sample \textit{et~al}]{Corresponding Author\,$^{1,*}$, Co-Author\,$^{2}$ and Co-Author\,$^2$\footnote{to whom correspondence should be addressed}}
\address{$^{1}$Department of XXXXXXX, Address XXXX etc.\\
    $^{2}$Department of XXXXXXXX, Address XXXX etc.}

\history{Received on XXXXX; revised on XXXXX; accepted on XXXXX}

\editor{Associate Editor: XXXXXXX}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}

    \section{Motivation:}
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    \section{Results:}
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    \section{Availability:}
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    \section{Contact:} \href{[email protected]}{[email protected]}
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}

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\begin{equation}
\sum x+ y =Z\label{eq:01}
\end{equation}


\section{Approach}

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\begin{methods}
    \section{Methods}

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    \begin{itemize}
        \item for bulleted list, use itemize
        \item for bulleted list, use itemize
        \item for bulleted list, use itemize
    \end{itemize}


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    \begin{table}[!t]
        \processtable{This is table caption\label{Tab:01}}
        {\begin{tabular}{llll}\toprule
                head1 & head2 & head3 & head4\\\midrule
                row1 & row1 & row1 & row1\\
                row2 & row2 & row2 & row2\\
                row3 & row3 & row3 & row3\\
                row4 & row4 & row4 & row4\\\botrule
            \end{tabular}}{This is a footnote}
        \end{table}

    \end{methods}

    \begin{figure}[!tpb]%figure1
        %\centerline{\includegraphics{fig01.eps}}
        \caption{Caption, caption.}\label{fig:01}
    \end{figure}

    \begin{figure}[!tpb]%figure2
        %\centerline{\includegraphics{fig02.eps}}
        \caption{Caption, caption.}\label{fig:02}
    \end{figure}

    \section{Discussion}

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    %
    %     please remove the " % " symbol from \centerline{\includegraphics{fig01.eps}}
    %     as it may ignore the figures.
    %
    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

    \section{Conclusion}

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    \begin{enumerate}
        \item this is item, use enumerate
        \item this is item, use enumerate
        \item this is item, use enumerate
    \end{enumerate}

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    \section*{Acknowledgement}
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    \paragraph{Funding\textcolon} Text Text Text Text Text Text  Text Text.

    %\bibliographystyle{natbib}
    %\bibliographystyle{achemnat}
    %\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
    %\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
    %\bibliographystyle{bioinformatics}
    %
    %\bibliographystyle{plain}
    %
    %\bibliography{Document}


    \begin{thebibliography}{}
        \bibitem[Bofelli {\it et~al}., 2000]{Boffelli03} Bofelli,F., Name2, Name3 (2003) Article title, {\it Journal Name}, {\bf 199}, 133-154.

        \bibitem[Bag {\it et~al}., 2001]{Bag01} Bag,M., Name2, Name3 (2001) Article title, {\it Journal Name}, {\bf 99}, 33-54.

        \bibitem[Yoo \textit{et~al}., 2003]{Yoo03}
        Yoo,M.S. \textit{et~al}. (2003) Oxidative stress regulated genes
        in nigral dopaminergic neurnol cell: correlation with the known
        pathology in Parkinson's disease. \textit{Brain Res. Mol. Brain
            Res.}, \textbf{110}(Suppl. 1), 76--84.

        \bibitem[Lehmann, 1986]{Leh86}
        Lehmann,E.L. (1986) Chapter title. \textit{Book Title}. Vol.~1, 2nd edn. Springer-Verlag, New York.

        \bibitem[Crenshaw and Jones, 2003]{Cre03}
        Crenshaw, B.,III, and Jones, W.B.,Jr (2003) The future of clinical
        cancer management: one tumor, one chip. \textit{Bioinformatics},
        doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn000.

        \bibitem[Auhtor \textit{et~al}. (2000)]{Aut00}
        Auhtor,A.B. \textit{et~al}. (2000) Chapter title. In Smith, A.C.
        (ed.), \textit{Book Title}, 2nd edn. Publisher, Location, Vol. 1, pp.
        ???--???.

        \bibitem[Bardet, 1920]{Bar20}
        Bardet, G. (1920) Sur un syndrome d'obesite infantile avec
        polydactylie et retinite pigmentaire (contribution a l'etude des
        formes cliniques de l'obesite hypophysaire). PhD Thesis, name of
        institution, Paris, France.

    \end{thebibliography}
\end{document

Here's a link to the bioinfo.cls file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/a65ubzzauuquxvf/bioinfo.cls?dl=0

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    Where can we find this bioinfo.cls?
    – user31729
    Commented Feb 20, 2016 at 12:57
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    You cannot have an empty line in the abstract and you shoul not have a section in the abstract.
    – Johannes_B
    Commented Feb 20, 2016 at 13:45
  • You might want to take a look at package blindtext or lipsum. All this text text text text is boring and bloating the quite extensive example even more.
    – Johannes_B
    Commented Feb 20, 2016 at 13:47
  • That got resolved. But still getting the "Undefined control sequence. \maketitle" error.
    – Alchemist
    Commented Feb 22, 2016 at 6:29
  • @ChristianHupfer I added the link to the bioinfo.cls in the question.
    – Alchemist
    Commented Feb 22, 2016 at 6:33

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In the bioinfo.cls there is a commented environment also named abstract.

%\newenvironment{abstract}{%
%  \begingroup
%  \let\section\absection
%  \fontfamily{\sfdefault}\fontsize{10}{12}\sffamily\selectfont
%  {\fontseries{b}\selectfont Abstract}\par}
%{\endgroup\bigskip\@afterheading\@afterindentfalse\vskip 12pt plus 3pt minus 1pt}

This can be an old version of the class and the template provided has not been updated. That is the reason why you have to define \abstract{my abstract here} and \corresp{corresponding author} before the beginning of the document (as mentioned by @Johannes_B)

Thus you have to have this structure:

\history{Received on XXXXX; revised on XXXXX; accepted on XXXXX}    
\editor{Associate Editor: XXXXXXX
\corresp{TEST}
\abstract{Short version of your abstract.}

\begin{document}
\firstpage{1}
\begin{abstract}
    The long version of your abstract.
\end{abstract}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
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