added more sanity checks because I was still seeing file truncation
problems (due to NFS latency?)
Merge branch 'develop' of https://github.com/cancerregulome/gidget into develop
was still running into issues with NFS latency, so have added some
more checkpoints to (hopefully) prevent these types of errors...
DB loading scripts standardized to reside in GeneSpot project; https://github.com/cancerregulome/GeneSpot/tree/master/db/scripts
staying in sync with develop (Merge branch 'develop' into feature/common-utilities)