Tophat2
edgeR
DESeq2
Note: the most recent version of this tutorial can be found here and a short overview slide show here.
systemPipeR
provides utilities for building and running automated end-to-end analysis workflows for a wide range of next generation sequence (NGS) applications such as RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, VAR-Seq and Ribo-Seq (Girke 2014). Important features include a uniform workflow interface across different NGS applications, automated report generation, and support for running both R and command-line software, such as NGS aligners or peak/variant callers, on local computers or compute clusters. The latter supports interactive job submissions and batch submissions to queuing systems of clusters. For instance, systemPipeR
can be used with most command-line aligners such as BWA
(Li 2013; Li and Durbin 2009), TopHat2
(Kim et al. 2013) and Bowtie2
(Langmead and Salzberg 2012), as well as the R-based NGS aligners Rsubread
(Liao, Smyth, and Shi 2013) and gsnap (gmapR)
(Wu and Nacu 2010). Efficient handling of complex sample sets (e.g. FASTQ/BAM files) and experimental designs is facilitated by a well-defined sample annotation infrastructure which improves reproducibility and user-friendliness of many typical analysis workflows in the NGS area (Lawrence et al. 2013).
Motivation and advantages of sytemPipeR
environment:
A central concept for designing workflows within the sytemPipeR
environment is the use of workflow management containers called SYSargs
(see Figure 1). Instances of this S4 object class are constructed by the systemArgs
function from two simple tabular files: a targets
file and a param
file. The latter is optional for workflow steps lacking command-line software. Typically, a SYSargs
instance stores all sample-level inputs as well as the paths to the corresponding outputs generated by command-line- or R-based software generating sample-level output files, such as read preprocessors (trimmed/filtered FASTQ files), aligners (SAM/BAM files), variant callers (VCF/BCF files) or peak callers (BED/WIG files). Each sample level input/outfile operation uses its own SYSargs
instance. The outpaths of SYSargs
usually define the sample inputs for the next SYSargs
instance. This connectivity is established by writing the outpaths with the writeTargetsout
function to a new targets
file that serves as input to the next systemArgs
call. Typically, the user has to provide only the initial targets
file. All downstream targets
files are generated automatically. By chaining several SYSargs
steps together one can construct complex workflows involving many sample-level input/output file operations with any combinaton of command-line or R-based software.
The intended way of running sytemPipeR
workflows is via *.Rnw
or *.Rmd
files, which can be executed either line-wise in interactive mode or with a single command from R or the command-line using a Makefile
. This way comprehensive and reproducible analysis reports can be generated in PDF or HTML format in a fully automated manner by making use of the highly functional reporting utilities available for R. Templates for setting up custom project reports are provided as *.Rnw
files by the helper package systemPipeRdata
and in the vignettes subdirectory of systemPipeR
. The corresponding PDFs of these report templates are available here: systemPipeRNAseq
, systemPipeRIBOseq
, systemPipeChIPseq
and systemPipeVARseq
. To work with *.Rnw
or *.Rmd
files efficiently, basic knowledge of Sweave
or knitr
and Latex
or R Markdown v2
is required.
The R software for running systemPipeR
can be downloaded from CRAN. The systemPipeR
environment can be installed from the R console using the biocLite
install command. The associated data package systemPipeRdata
can be installed the same way. The latter is a helper package for generating systemPipeR
workflow environments with a single command containing all parameter files and sample data required to quickly test and run workflows.
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") # Sources the biocLite.R installation script
biocLite("systemPipeR") # Installs systemPipeR
biocLite("systemPipeRdata") # Installs systemPipeRdata
library("systemPipeR") # Loads the package
library(help="systemPipeR") # Lists package info
vignette("systemPipeR") # Opens vignette
The mini sample FASTQ files used by this overview vignette as well as the associated workflow reporting vignettes can be loaded via the systemPipeRdata
package as shown below. The chosen data set SRP010938
contains 18 paired-end (PE) read sets from Arabidposis thaliana (Howard et al. 2013). To minimize processing time during testing, each FASTQ file has been subsetted to 90,000-100,000 randomly sampled PE reads that map to the first 100,000 nucleotides of each chromosome of the A. thalina genome. The corresponding reference genome sequence (FASTA) and its GFF annotion files (provided in the same download) have been truncated accordingly. This way the entire test sample data set requires less than 200MB disk storage space. A PE read set has been chosen for this test data set for flexibility, because it can be used for testing both types of analysis routines requiring either SE (single end) reads or PE reads.
The following generates a fully populated systemPipeR
workflow environment (here for RNA-Seq) in the current working directory of an R session. At this time the package includes workflow templates for RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, VAR-Seq and Ribo-Seq. Templates for additional NGS applications will be provided in the future.
library(systemPipeRdata)
genWorkenvir(workflow="rnaseq")
setwd("rnaseq")
The working environment of the sample data loaded in the previous step contains the following preconfigured directory structure. Directory names are indicated in grey. Users can change this structure as needed, but need to adjust the code in their workflows accordingly.
The following parameter files are included in each workflow template:
targets.txt
: initial one provided by user; downstream targets_*.txt
files are generated automatically*.param
: defines parameter for input/output file operations, e.g. trim.param
, bwa.param
, vartools.parm
, …*_run.sh
: optional bash script, e.g.: gatk_run.sh
.BatchJobs
: defines type of scheduler for BatchJobs
*.tmpl
: specifies parameters of scheduler used by a system, e.g. Torque, SGE, StarCluster, Slurm, etc.targets
fileThe targets
file defines all input files (e.g. FASTQ, BAM, BCF) and sample comparisons of an analysis workflow. The following shows the format of a sample targets
file included in the package. It also can be viewed and downloaded from systemPipeR
’s GitHub repository here. In a target file with a single type of input files, here FASTQ files of single end (SE) reads, the first three columns are mandatory including their column names, while it is four mandatory columns for FASTQ files of PE reads. All subsequent columns are optional and any number of additional columns can be added as needed.
targets
file for single end (SE) sampleslibrary(systemPipeR)
targetspath <- system.file("extdata", "targets.txt", package="systemPipeR")
read.delim(targetspath, comment.char = "#")
## FileName SampleName Factor SampleLong Experiment Date
## 1 ./data/SRR446027_1.fastq M1A M1 Mock.1h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 2 ./data/SRR446028_1.fastq M1B M1 Mock.1h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 3 ./data/SRR446029_1.fastq A1A A1 Avr.1h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 4 ./data/SRR446030_1.fastq A1B A1 Avr.1h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 5 ./data/SRR446031_1.fastq V1A V1 Vir.1h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 6 ./data/SRR446032_1.fastq V1B V1 Vir.1h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 7 ./data/SRR446033_1.fastq M6A M6 Mock.6h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 8 ./data/SRR446034_1.fastq M6B M6 Mock.6h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 9 ./data/SRR446035_1.fastq A6A A6 Avr.6h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 10 ./data/SRR446036_1.fastq A6B A6 Avr.6h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 11 ./data/SRR446037_1.fastq V6A V6 Vir.6h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 12 ./data/SRR446038_1.fastq V6B V6 Vir.6h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 13 ./data/SRR446039_1.fastq M12A M12 Mock.12h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 14 ./data/SRR446040_1.fastq M12B M12 Mock.12h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 15 ./data/SRR446041_1.fastq A12A A12 Avr.12h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 16 ./data/SRR446042_1.fastq A12B A12 Avr.12h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
## 17 ./data/SRR446043_1.fastq V12A V12 Vir.12h.A 1 23-Mar-2012
## 18 ./data/SRR446044_1.fastq V12B V12 Vir.12h.B 1 23-Mar-2012
To work with custom data, users need to generate a targets
file containing the paths to their own FASTQ files and then provide under targetspath
the path to the corresponding targets
file.
targets
file for paired end (PE) samplestargetspath <- system.file("extdata", "targetsPE.txt", package="systemPipeR")
read.delim(targetspath, comment.char = "#")[1:2,1:6]
## FileName1 FileName2 SampleName Factor SampleLong Experiment
## 1 ./data/SRR446027_1.fastq ./data/SRR446027_2.fastq M1A M1 Mock.1h.A 1
## 2 ./data/SRR446028_1.fastq ./data/SRR446028_2.fastq M1B M1 Mock.1h.B 1
Sample comparisons are defined in the header lines of the targets
file starting with ‘# <CMP>
’.
readLines(targetspath)[1:4]
## [1] "# Project ID: Arabidopsis - Pseudomonas alternative splicing study (SRA: SRP010938; PMID: 24098335)"
## [2] "# The following line(s) allow to specify the contrasts needed for comparative analyses, such as DEG identification. All possible comparisons can be specified with 'CMPset: ALL'."
## [3] "# <CMP> CMPset1: M1-A1, M1-V1, A1-V1, M6-A6, M6-V6, A6-V6, M12-A12, M12-V12, A12-V12"
## [4] "# <CMP> CMPset2: ALL"
The function readComp
imports the comparison information and stores it in a list
. Alternatively, readComp
can obtain the comparison information from the corresponding SYSargs
object (see below).
Note, these header lines are optional. They are mainly useful for controlling comparative analyses according to certain biological expectations, such as identifying differentially expressed genes in RNA-Seq experiments based on simple pair-wise comparisons.
readComp(file=targetspath, format="vector", delim="-")
## $CMPset1
## [1] "M1-A1" "M1-V1" "A1-V1" "M6-A6" "M6-V6" "A6-V6" "M12-A12" "M12-V12" "A12-V12"
##
## $CMPset2
## [1] "M1-A1" "M1-V1" "M1-M6" "M1-A6" "M1-V6" "M1-M12" "M1-A12" "M1-V12" "A1-V1"
## [10] "A1-M6" "A1-A6" "A1-V6" "A1-M12" "A1-A12" "A1-V12" "V1-M6" "V1-A6" "V1-V6"
## [19] "V1-M12" "V1-A12" "V1-V12" "M6-A6" "M6-V6" "M6-M12" "M6-A12" "M6-V12" "A6-V6"
## [28] "A6-M12" "A6-A12" "A6-V12" "V6-M12" "V6-A12" "V6-V12" "M12-A12" "M12-V12" "A12-V12"
param
file and SYSargs
containerThe param
file defines the parameters of a chosen command-line software. The following shows the format of a sample param
file provided by this package.
parampath <- system.file("extdata", "tophat.param", package="systemPipeR")
read.delim(parampath, comment.char = "#")
## PairSet Name Value
## 1 modules <NA> bowtie2/2.2.5
## 2 modules <NA> tophat/2.0.14
## 3 software <NA> tophat
## 4 cores -p 4
## 5 other <NA> -g 1 --segment-length 25 -i 30 -I 3000
## 6 outfile1 -o <FileName1>
## 7 outfile1 path ./results/
## 8 outfile1 remove <NA>
## 9 outfile1 append .tophat
## 10 outfile1 outextension .tophat/accepted_hits.bam
## 11 reference <NA> ./data/tair10.fasta
## 12 infile1 <NA> <FileName1>
## 13 infile1 path <NA>
## 14 infile2 <NA> <FileName2>
## 15 infile2 path <NA>
The systemArgs
function imports the definitions of both the param
file
and the targets
file, and stores all relevant information in a SYSargs
object (S4 class). To run the pipeline without command-line software, one can
assign NULL
to sysma
instead of a param
file. In addition, one can
start systemPipeR
workflows with pre-generated BAM files by providing a
targets file where the FileName
column provides the paths to the BAM files.
Note, in the following example the usage of suppressWarnings()
is only relevant for
building this vignette. In typical workflows it should be removed.
args <- suppressWarnings(systemArgs(sysma=parampath, mytargets=targetspath))
args
## An instance of 'SYSargs' for running 'tophat' on 18 samples
Several accessor methods are available that are named after the slot names of the SYSargs
object.
names(args)
## [1] "targetsin" "targetsout" "targetsheader" "modules" "software" "cores"
## [7] "other" "reference" "results" "infile1" "infile2" "outfile1"
## [13] "sysargs" "outpaths"
Of particular interest is the sysargs()
method. It constructs the system
commands for running command-lined software as specified by a given param
file combined with the paths to the input samples (e.g. FASTQ files) provided
by a targets
file. The example below shows the sysargs()
output for
running TopHat2 on the first PE read sample. Evaluating the output of
sysargs()
can be very helpful for designing and debugging param
files
of new command-line software or changing the parameter settings of existing
ones.
sysargs(args)[1]
## M1A
## "tophat -p 4 -g 1 --segment-length 25 -i 30 -I 3000 -o /tmp/RtmpnwCi1M/Rbuild744f1d6738b6/systemPipeR/vignettes/results/SRR446027_1.fastq.tophat /tmp/RtmpnwCi1M/Rbuild744f1d6738b6/systemPipeR/vignettes/data/tair10.fasta ./data/SRR446027_1.fastq ./data/SRR446027_2.fastq"
modules(args)
## [1] "bowtie2/2.2.5" "tophat/2.0.14"
cores(args)
## [1] 4
outpaths(args)[1]
## M1A
## "/tmp/RtmpnwCi1M/Rbuild744f1d6738b6/systemPipeR/vignettes/results/SRR446027_1.fastq.tophat/accepted_hits.bam"
The content of the param
file can also be returned as JSON object as follows (requires rjson
package).
systemArgs(sysma=parampath, mytargets=targetspath, type="json")
## [1] "{\"modules\":{\"n1\":\"\",\"v2\":\"bowtie2/2.2.5\",\"n1\":\"\",\"v2\":\"tophat/2.0.14\"},\"software\":{\"n1\":\"\",\"v1\":\"tophat\"},\"cores\":{\"n1\":\"-p\",\"v1\":\"4\"},\"other\":{\"n1\":\"\",\"v1\":\"-g 1 --segment-length 25 -i 30 -I 3000\"},\"outfile1\":{\"n1\":\"-o\",\"v2\":\"<FileName1>\",\"n3\":\"path\",\"v4\":\"./results/\",\"n5\":\"remove\",\"v1\":\"\",\"n2\":\"append\",\"v3\":\".tophat\",\"n4\":\"outextension\",\"v5\":\".tophat/accepted_hits.bam\"},\"reference\":{\"n1\":\"\",\"v1\":\"./data/tair10.fasta\"},\"infile1\":{\"n1\":\"\",\"v2\":\"<FileName1>\",\"n1\":\"path\",\"v2\":\"\"},\"infile2\":{\"n1\":\"\",\"v2\":\"<FileName2>\",\"n1\":\"path\",\"v2\":\"\"}}"
A typical workflow starts with generating the expected working environment
containing the proper directory structure, input files and parameter settings.
To simplify this task, one can load one of the existing NGS workflows templates
provided by systemPipeRdata
into the current working directory. The
following does this for the rnaseq
template. The name of the resulting
workflow directory can be specified under the mydirname
argument. The
default NULL
uses the name of the chosen workflow. An error is issued if a
directory of the same name and path exists already. On Linux and OS X systems
one can also create new workflow instances from the command-line of a terminal as shown
here.
To apply workflows to custom data, the user needs to modify the targets
file and if
necessary update the corresponding param
file(s). A collection of pre-generated param
files is provided in the param
subdirectory of each workflow template. They
are also viewable in the GitHub repository of systemPipeRdata
(see
here).
library(systemPipeR)
library(systemPipeRdata)
genWorkenvir(workflow="rnaseq", mydirname=NULL)
setwd("rnaseq")
Construct SYSargs
object from param
and targets
files.
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/trim.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
The function preprocessReads
allows to apply predefined or custom
read preprocessing functions to all FASTQ files referenced in a
SYSargs
container, such as quality filtering or adaptor trimming
routines. The paths to the resulting output FASTQ files are stored in the
outpaths
slot of the SYSargs
object. Internally,
preprocessReads
uses the FastqStreamer
function from
the ShortRead
package to stream through large FASTQ files in a
memory-efficient manner. The following example performs adaptor trimming with
the trimLRPatterns
function from the Biostrings
package.
After the trimming step a new targets file is generated (here
targets_trim.txt
) containing the paths to the trimmed FASTQ files.
The new targets file can be used for the next workflow step with an updated
SYSargs
instance, e.g. running the NGS alignments with the
trimmed FASTQ files.
preprocessReads(args=args, Fct="trimLRPatterns(Rpattern='GCCCGGGTAA', subject=fq)",
batchsize=100000, overwrite=TRUE, compress=TRUE)
writeTargetsout(x=args, file="targets_trim.txt")
The following example shows how one can design a custom read preprocessing function
using utilities provided by the ShortRead
package, and then run it
in batch mode with the ‘preprocessReads’ function (here on paired-end reads).
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/trimPE.param", mytargets="targetsPE.txt")
filterFct <- function(fq, cutoff=20, Nexceptions=0) {
qcount <- rowSums(as(quality(fq), "matrix") <= cutoff)
fq[qcount <= Nexceptions] # Retains reads where Phred scores are >= cutoff with N exceptions
}
preprocessReads(args=args, Fct="filterFct(fq, cutoff=20, Nexceptions=0)", batchsize=100000)
writeTargetsout(x=args, file="targets_PEtrim.txt")
The following seeFastq
and seeFastqPlot
functions generate and plot a series of
useful quality statistics for a set of FASTQ files including per cycle quality
box plots, base proportions, base-level quality trends, relative k-mer
diversity, length and occurrence distribution of reads, number of reads above
quality cutoffs and mean quality distribution.
The function seeFastq
computes the quality statistics and stores the results in a
relatively small list object that can be saved to disk with save()
and
reloaded with load()
for later plotting. The argument klength
specifies the
k-mer length and batchsize
the number of reads to random sample from each
FASTQ file.
fqlist <- seeFastq(fastq=infile1(args), batchsize=10000, klength=8)
pdf("./results/fastqReport.pdf", height=18, width=4*length(fqlist))
seeFastqPlot(fqlist)
dev.off()
Parallelization of QC report on single machine with multiple cores
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/tophat.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
f <- function(x) seeFastq(fastq=infile1(args)[x], batchsize=100000, klength=8)
fqlist <- bplapply(seq(along=args), f, BPPARAM = MulticoreParam(workers=8))
seeFastqPlot(unlist(fqlist, recursive=FALSE))
Parallelization of QC report via scheduler (e.g. Torque) across several compute nodes
library(BiocParallel); library(BatchJobs)
f <- function(x) {
library(systemPipeR)
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/tophat.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
seeFastq(fastq=infile1(args)[x], batchsize=100000, klength=8)
}
funs <- makeClusterFunctionsTorque("torque.tmpl")
param <- BatchJobsParam(length(args), resources=list(walltime="20:00:00", nodes="1:ppn=1", memory="6gb"), cluster.functions=funs)
register(param)
fqlist <- bplapply(seq(along=args), f)
seeFastqPlot(unlist(fqlist, recursive=FALSE))
Tophat2
Build Bowtie2
index.
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/tophat.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
moduleload(modules(args)) # Skip if module system is not available
system("bowtie2-build ./data/tair10.fasta ./data/tair10.fasta")
Execute SYSargs
on a single machine without submitting to a queuing system of a compute cluster. This way the input FASTQ files will be processed sequentially. If available, multiple CPU cores can be used for processing each file. The number of CPU cores (here 4) to use for each process is defined in the *.param
file. With cores(args)
one can return this value from the SYSargs
object. Note, if a module system is not installed or used, then the corresponding *.param
file needs to be edited accordingly by either providing an empty field in the line(s) starting with module
or by deleting these lines.
bampaths <- runCommandline(args=args)
Alternatively, the computation can be greatly accelerated by processing many files in parallel using several compute nodes of a cluster, where a scheduling/queuing system is used for load balancing. To avoid over-subscription of CPU cores on the compute nodes, the value from cores(args)
is passed on to the submission command, here nodes
in the resources
list object. The number of independent parallel cluster processes is defined under the Njobs
argument. The following example will run 18 processes in parallel using for each 4 CPU cores. If the resources available on a cluster allow to run all 18 processes at the same time then the shown sample submission will utilize in total 72 CPU cores. Note, clusterRun
can be used with most queueing systems as it is based on utilities from the BatchJobs
package which supports the use of template files (*.tmpl
) for defining the run parameters of different schedulers. To run the following code, one needs to have both a conf file (see .BatchJob
samples here) and a template file (see *.tmpl
samples here) for the queueing available on a system. The following example uses the sample conf and template files for the Torque scheduler provided by this package.
resources <- list(walltime="20:00:00", nodes=paste0("1:ppn=", cores(args)), memory="10gb")
reg <- clusterRun(args, conffile=".BatchJobs.R", template="torque.tmpl", Njobs=18, runid="01",
resourceList=resources)
waitForJobs(reg)
Useful commands for monitoring progress of submitted jobs
showStatus(reg)
file.exists(outpaths(args))
sapply(1:length(args), function(x) loadResult(reg, x)) # Works after job completion
Generate table of read and alignment counts for all samples.
read_statsDF <- alignStats(args)
write.table(read_statsDF, "results/alignStats.xls", row.names=FALSE, quote=FALSE, sep="\t")
The following shows the first four lines of the sample alignment stats file provided by the systemPipeR
package. For simplicity the number of PE reads is multiplied here by 2 to approximate proper alignment frequencies where each read in a pair is counted.
read.table(system.file("extdata", "alignStats.xls", package="systemPipeR"), header=TRUE)[1:4,]
## FileName Nreads2x Nalign Perc_Aligned Nalign_Primary Perc_Aligned_Primary
## 1 M1A 192918 177961 92.24697 177961 92.24697
## 2 M1B 197484 159378 80.70426 159378 80.70426
## 3 A1A 189870 176055 92.72397 176055 92.72397
## 4 A1B 188854 147768 78.24457 147768 78.24457
Parallelization of read/alignment stats on single machine with multiple cores
f <- function(x) alignStats(args[x])
read_statsList <- bplapply(seq(along=args), f, BPPARAM = MulticoreParam(workers=8))
read_statsDF <- do.call("rbind", read_statsList)
Parallelization of read/alignment stats via scheduler (e.g. Torque) across several compute nodes
library(BiocParallel); library(BatchJobs)
f <- function(x) {
library(systemPipeR)
args <- systemArgs(sysma="tophat.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
alignStats(args[x])
}
funs <- makeClusterFunctionsTorque("torque.tmpl")
param <- BatchJobsParam(length(args), resources=list(walltime="20:00:00", nodes="1:ppn=1", memory="6gb"), cluster.functions=funs)
register(param)
read_statsList <- bplapply(seq(along=args), f)
read_statsDF <- do.call("rbind", read_statsList)
The genome browser IGV supports reading of indexed/sorted BAM files via web URLs. This way it can be avoided to create unnecessary copies of these large files. To enable this approach, an HTML directory with http access needs to be available in the user account (e.g. home/publichtml
) of a system. If this is not the case then the BAM files need to be moved or copied to the system where IGV runs. In the following, htmldir
defines the path to the HTML directory with http access where the symbolic links to the BAM files will be stored. The corresponding URLs will be written to a text file specified under the _urlfile
_ argument.
symLink2bam(sysargs=args, htmldir=c("~/.html/", "somedir/"),
urlbase="http://myserver.edu/~username/",
urlfile="IGVurl.txt")
Bowtie2
(e.g. for miRNA profiling)The following example runs Bowtie2
as a single process without submitting it to a cluster.
args <- systemArgs(sysma="bowtieSE.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
moduleload(modules(args)) # Skip if module system is not available
bampaths <- runCommandline(args=args)
Alternatively, submit the job to compute nodes.
resources <- list(walltime="20:00:00", nodes=paste0("1:ppn=", cores(args)), memory="10gb")
reg <- clusterRun(args, conffile=".BatchJobs.R", template="torque.tmpl", Njobs=18, runid="01",
resourceList=resources)
waitForJobs(reg)
BWA-MEM
(e.g. for VAR-Seq)The following example runs BWA-MEM as a single process without submitting it to a cluster.
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/bwa.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
moduleload(modules(args)) # Skip if module system is not available
system("bwa index -a bwtsw ./data/tair10.fasta") # Indexes reference genome
bampaths <- runCommandline(args=args[1:2])
Rsubread
(e.g. for RNA-Seq)The following example shows how one can use within the environment the R-based aligner or other R-based functions that read from input files and write to output files.
library(Rsubread)
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/rsubread.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
buildindex(basename=reference(args), reference=reference(args)) # Build indexed reference genome
align(index=reference(args), readfile1=infile1(args)[1:4], input_format="FASTQ",
output_file=outfile1(args)[1:4], output_format="SAM", nthreads=8, indels=1, TH1=2)
for(i in seq(along=outfile1(args))) asBam(file=outfile1(args)[i], destination=gsub(".sam", "", outfile1(args)[i]), overwrite=TRUE, indexDestination=TRUE)
gsnap
(e.g. for VAR-Seq and RNA-Seq)Another R-based short read aligner is gsnap
from the gmapR
package (Wu and Nacu 2010).
The code sample below introduces how to run this aligner on multiple nodes of a compute cluster.
library(gmapR); library(BiocParallel); library(BatchJobs)
args <- systemArgs(sysma="param/gsnap.param", mytargets="targetsPE.txt")
gmapGenome <- GmapGenome(reference(args), directory="data", name="gmap_tair10chr/", create=TRUE)
f <- function(x) {
library(gmapR); library(systemPipeR)
args <- systemArgs(sysma="gsnap.param", mytargets="targetsPE.txt")
gmapGenome <- GmapGenome(reference(args), directory="data", name="gmap_tair10chr/", create=FALSE)
p <- GsnapParam(genome=gmapGenome, unique_only=TRUE, molecule="DNA", max_mismatches=3)
o <- gsnap(input_a=infile1(args)[x], input_b=infile2(args)[x], params=p, output=outfile1(args)[x])
}
funs <- makeClusterFunctionsTorque("torque.tmpl")
param <- BatchJobsParam(length(args), resources=list(walltime="20:00:00", nodes="1:ppn=1", memory="6gb"), cluster.functions=funs)
register(param)
d <- bplapply(seq(along=args), f)
Create txdb
(needs to be done only once)
library(GenomicFeatures)
txdb <- makeTxDbFromGFF(file="data/tair10.gff", format="gff", dataSource="TAIR", organism="A. thaliana")
saveDb(txdb, file="./data/tair10.sqlite")
The following performs read counting with summarizeOverlaps
in parallel mode with multiple cores.
library(BiocParallel)
txdb <- loadDb("./data/tair10.sqlite")
eByg <- exonsBy(txdb, by="gene")
bfl <- BamFileList(outpaths(args), yieldSize=50000, index=character())
multicoreParam <- MulticoreParam(workers=4); register(multicoreParam); registered()
counteByg <- bplapply(bfl, function(x) summarizeOverlaps(eByg, x, mode="Union", ignore.strand=TRUE, inter.feature=TRUE, singleEnd=TRUE)) # Note: for strand-specific RNA-Seq set 'ignore.strand=FALSE' and for PE data set 'singleEnd=FALSE'
countDFeByg <- sapply(seq(along=counteByg), function(x) assays(counteByg[[x]])$counts)
rownames(countDFeByg) <- names(rowRanges(counteByg[[1]])); colnames(countDFeByg) <- names(bfl)
rpkmDFeByg <- apply(countDFeByg, 2, function(x) returnRPKM(counts=x, ranges=eByg))
write.table(countDFeByg, "results/countDFeByg.xls", col.names=NA, quote=FALSE, sep="\t")
write.table(rpkmDFeByg, "results/rpkmDFeByg.xls", col.names=NA, quote=FALSE, sep="\t")
Please note, in addition to read counts this step generates RPKM normalized expression values. For most statistical differential expression or abundance analysis methods, such as edgeR
or DESeq2
, the raw count values should be used as input. The usage of RPKM values should be restricted to specialty applications required by some users, e.g. manually comparing the expression levels of different genes or features.
Read counting with summarizeOverlaps
using multiple nodes of a cluster
library(BiocParallel)
f <- function(x) {
library(systemPipeR); library(BiocParallel); library(GenomicFeatures)
txdb <- loadDb("./data/tair10.sqlite")
eByg <- exonsBy(txdb, by="gene")
args <- systemArgs(sysma="tophat.param", mytargets="targets.txt")
bfl <- BamFileList(outpaths(args), yieldSize=50000, index=character())
summarizeOverlaps(eByg, bfl[x], mode="Union", ignore.strand=TRUE, inter.feature=TRUE, singleEnd=TRUE)
}
funs <- makeClusterFunctionsTorque("torque.tmpl")
param <- BatchJobsParam(length(args), resources=list(walltime="20:00:00", nodes="1:ppn=1", memory="6gb"), cluster.functions=funs)
register(param)
counteByg <- bplapply(seq(along=args), f)
countDFeByg <- sapply(seq(along=counteByg), function(x) assays(counteByg[[x]])$counts)
rownames(countDFeByg) <- names(rowRanges(counteByg[[1]])); colnames(countDFeByg) <- names(outpaths(args))
Download miRNA genes from miRBase
system("wget ftp://mirbase.org/pub/mirbase/19/genomes/My_species.gff3 -P ./data/")
gff <- import.gff("./data/My_species.gff3")
gff <- split(gff, elementMetadata(gff)$ID)
bams <- names(bampaths); names(bams) <- targets$SampleName
bfl <- BamFileList(bams, yieldSize=50000, index=character())
countDFmiR <- summarizeOverlaps(gff, bfl, mode="Union", ignore.strand=FALSE, inter.feature=FALSE) # Note: inter.feature=FALSE important since pre and mature miRNA ranges overlap
rpkmDFmiR <- apply(countDFmiR, 2, function(x) returnRPKM(counts=x, gffsub=gff))
write.table(assays(countDFmiR)$counts, "results/countDFmiR.xls", col.names=NA, quote=FALSE, sep="\t")
write.table(rpkmDFmiR, "results/rpkmDFmiR.xls", col.names=NA, quote=FALSE, sep="\t")
The following computes the sample-wise Spearman correlation coefficients from the rlog
(regularized-logarithm) transformed expression values generated with the DESeq2
package. After transformation to a distance matrix, hierarchical clustering is performed with the hclust
function and the result is plotted as a dendrogram (sample_tree.pdf).
library(DESeq2, warn.conflicts=FALSE, quietly=TRUE); library(ape, warn.conflicts=FALSE)
countDFpath <- system.file("extdata", "countDFeByg.xls", package="systemPipeR")
countDF <- as.matrix(read.table(countDFpath))
colData <- data.frame(row.names=targetsin(args)$SampleName, condition=targetsin(args)$Factor)
dds <- DESeqDataSetFromMatrix(countData = countDF, colData = colData, design = ~ condition)
d <- cor(assay(rlog(dds)), method="spearman")
hc <- hclust(dist(1-d))
plot.phylo(as.phylo(hc), type="p", edge.col=4, edge.width=3, show.node.label=TRUE, no.margin=TRUE)
rlog
values.
Alternatively, the clustering can be performed with RPKM
normalized expression values. In combination with Spearman correlation the results of the two clustering methods are often relatively similar.
rpkmDFeBygpath <- system.file("extdata", "rpkmDFeByg.xls", package="systemPipeR")
rpkmDFeByg <- read.table(rpkmDFeBygpath, check.names=FALSE)
rpkmDFeByg <- rpkmDFeByg[rowMeans(rpkmDFeByg) > 50,]
d <- cor(rpkmDFeByg, method="spearman")
hc <- hclust(as.dist(1-d))
plot.phylo(as.phylo(hc), type="p", edge.col="blue", edge.width=2, show.node.label=TRUE, no.margin=TRUE)
edgeR
The following run_edgeR
function is a convenience wrapper for
identifying differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in batch mode with
edgeR
’s GML method (Robinson, McCarthy, and Smyth 2010) for any number of
pairwise sample comparisons specified under the cmp
argument. Users
are strongly encouraged to consult the
edgeR
vignette
for more detailed information on this topic and how to properly run edgeR
on data sets with more complex experimental designs.
targets <- read.delim(targetspath, comment="#")
cmp <- readComp(file=targetspath, format="matrix", delim="-")
cmp[[1]]
## [,1] [,2]
## [1,] "M1" "A1"
## [2,] "M1" "V1"
## [3,] "A1" "V1"
## [4,] "M6" "A6"
## [5,] "M6" "V6"
## [6,] "A6" "V6"
## [7,] "M12" "A12"
## [8,] "M12" "V12"
## [9,] "A12" "V12"
countDFeBygpath <- system.file("extdata", "countDFeByg.xls", package="systemPipeR")
countDFeByg <- read.delim(countDFeBygpath, row.names=1)
edgeDF <- run_edgeR(countDF=countDFeByg, targets=targets, cmp=cmp[[1]], independent=FALSE, mdsplot="")
## Disp = 0.21829 , BCV = 0.4672
Filter and plot DEG results for up and down regulated genes. Because of the small size of the toy data set used by this vignette, the FDR value has been set to a relatively high threshold (here 10%). More commonly used FDR cutoffs are 1% or 5%. The definition of ‘up’ and ‘down’ is given in the corresponding help file. To open it, type ?filterDEGs
in the R console.
DEG_list <- filterDEGs(degDF=edgeDF, filter=c(Fold=2, FDR=10))
edgeR
.
names(DEG_list)
## [1] "UporDown" "Up" "Down" "Summary"
DEG_list$Summary[1:4,]
## Comparisons Counts_Up_or_Down Counts_Up Counts_Down
## M1-A1 M1-A1 0 0 0
## M1-V1 M1-V1 1 1 0
## A1-V1 A1-V1 1 1 0
## M6-A6 M6-A6 0 0 0
DESeq2
The following run_DESeq2
function is a convenience wrapper for
identifying DEGs in batch mode with DESeq2
(Love, Huber, and Anders 2014) for any number of
pairwise sample comparisons specified under the cmp
argument. Users
are strongly encouraged to consult the
DESeq2
vignette
for more detailed information on this topic and how to properly run DESeq2
on data sets with more complex experimental designs.
degseqDF <- run_DESeq2(countDF=countDFeByg, targets=targets, cmp=cmp[[1]], independent=FALSE)
Filter and plot DEG results for up and down regulated genes.
DEG_list2 <- filterDEGs(degDF=degseqDF, filter=c(Fold=2, FDR=10))
DESeq2
.
The function overLapper
can compute Venn intersects for large numbers of sample sets (up to 20 or more) and vennPlot
can plot 2-5 way Venn diagrams. A useful feature is the possiblity to combine the counts from several Venn comparisons with the same number of sample sets in a single Venn diagram (here for 4 up and down DEG sets).
vennsetup <- overLapper(DEG_list$Up[6:9], type="vennsets")
vennsetdown <- overLapper(DEG_list$Down[6:9], type="vennsets")
vennPlot(list(vennsetup, vennsetdown), mymain="", mysub="", colmode=2, ccol=c("blue", "red"))
The following shows how to obtain gene-to-GO mappings from biomaRt
(here for A. thaliana) and how to organize them for the downstream GO term enrichment analysis. Alternatively, the gene-to-GO mappings can be obtained for many organisms from Bioconductor’s *.db
genome annotation packages or GO annotation files provided by various genome databases. For each annotation this relatively slow preprocessing step needs to be performed only once. Subsequently, the preprocessed data can be loaded with the load
function as shown in the next subsection.
library("biomaRt")
listMarts() # To choose BioMart database
m <- useMart("ENSEMBL_MART_PLANT"); listDatasets(m)
m <- useMart("ENSEMBL_MART_PLANT", dataset="athaliana_eg_gene")
listAttributes(m) # Choose data types you want to download
go <- getBM(attributes=c("go_accession", "tair_locus", "go_namespace_1003"), mart=m)
go <- go[go[,3]!="",]; go[,3] <- as.character(go[,3])
dir.create("./data/GO")
write.table(go, "data/GO/GOannotationsBiomart_mod.txt", quote=FALSE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE, sep="\t")
catdb <- makeCATdb(myfile="data/GO/GOannotationsBiomart_mod.txt", lib=NULL, org="", colno=c(1,2,3), idconv=NULL)
save(catdb, file="data/GO/catdb.RData")
Apply the enrichment analysis to the DEG sets obtained in the above differential expression analysis. Note, in the following example the FDR filter is set here to an unreasonably high value, simply because of the small size of the toy data set used in this vignette. Batch enrichment analysis of many gene sets is performed with the GOCluster_Report
function. When method="all"
, it returns all GO terms passing the p-value cutoff specified under the cutoff
arguments. When method="slim"
, it returns only the GO terms specified under the myslimv
argument. The given example shows how one can obtain such a GO slim vector from BioMart for a specific organism.
load("data/GO/catdb.RData")
DEG_list <- filterDEGs(degDF=edgeDF, filter=c(Fold=2, FDR=50), plot=FALSE)
up_down <- DEG_list$UporDown; names(up_down) <- paste(names(up_down), "_up_down", sep="")
up <- DEG_list$Up; names(up) <- paste(names(up), "_up", sep="")
down <- DEG_list$Down; names(down) <- paste(names(down), "_down", sep="")
DEGlist <- c(up_down, up, down)
DEGlist <- DEGlist[sapply(DEGlist, length) > 0]
BatchResult <- GOCluster_Report(catdb=catdb, setlist=DEGlist, method="all", id_type="gene", CLSZ=2, cutoff=0.9, gocats=c("MF", "BP", "CC"), recordSpecGO=NULL)
library("biomaRt"); m <- useMart("ENSEMBL_MART_PLANT", dataset="athaliana_eg_gene")
goslimvec <- as.character(getBM(attributes=c("goslim_goa_accession"), mart=m)[,1])
BatchResultslim <- GOCluster_Report(catdb=catdb, setlist=DEGlist, method="slim", id_type="gene", myslimv=goslimvec, CLSZ=10, cutoff=0.01, gocats=c("MF", "BP", "CC"), recordSpecGO=NULL)
The data.frame
generated by GOCluster_Report
can be plotted with the goBarplot
function. Because of the variable size of the sample sets, it may not always be desirable to show the results from different DEG sets in the same bar plot. Plotting single sample sets is achieved by subsetting the input data frame as shown in the first line of the following example.
gos <- BatchResultslim[grep("M6-V6_up_down", BatchResultslim$CLID), ]
gos <- BatchResultslim
pdf("GOslimbarplotMF.pdf", height=8, width=10); goBarplot(gos, gocat="MF"); dev.off()
goBarplot(gos, gocat="BP")
goBarplot(gos, gocat="CC")
The following example performs hierarchical clustering on the rlog
transformed expression matrix subsetted by the DEGs identified in the
above differential expression analysis. It uses a Pearson correlation-based distance measure and complete linkage for cluster joining.
library(pheatmap)
geneids <- unique(as.character(unlist(DEG_list[[1]])))
y <- assay(rlog(dds))[geneids, ]
pdf("heatmap1.pdf")
pheatmap(y, scale="row", clustering_distance_rows="correlation", clustering_distance_cols="correlation")
dev.off()
Load the RNA-Seq sample workflow into your current working directory.
library(systemPipeRdata)
genWorkenvir(workflow="rnaseq")
setwd("rnaseq")
Next, run the chosen sample workflow systemPipeRNAseq
(PDF, Rnw) by executing from the command-line make -B
within the rnaseq
directory. Alternatively, one can run the code from the provided *.Rnw
template file from within R interactively.
Workflow includes following steps:
Tophat2
(or any other RNA-Seq aligner)Load the ChIP-Seq sample workflow into your current working directory.
library(systemPipeRdata)
genWorkenvir(workflow="chipseq")
setwd("chipseq")
Next, run the chosen sample workflow systemPipeChIPseq_single
(PDF, Rnw) by executing from the command-line make -B
within the chipseq
directory. Alternatively, one can run the code from the provided *.Rnw
template file from within R interactively.
Workflow includes following steps:
Bowtie2
or rsubread
MACS2
, BayesPeak
Load the VAR-Seq sample workflow into your current working directory.
library(systemPipeRdata)
genWorkenvir(workflow="varseq")
setwd("varseq")
Next, run the chosen sample workflow systemPipeVARseq_single
(PDF, Rnw) by executing from the command-line make -B
within the varseq
directory. Alternatively, one can run the code from the provided *.Rnw
template file from within R interactively.
Workflow includes following steps:
gsnap
, bwa
VariantTools
, GATK
, BCFtools
VariantTools
and VariantAnnotation
VariantAnnotation
Load the Ribo-Seq sample workflow into your current working directory.
library(systemPipeRdata)
genWorkenvir(workflow="riboseq")
setwd("riboseq")
Next, run the chosen sample workflow systemPipeRIBOseq
(PDF, Rnw) by executing from the command-line make -B
within the ribseq
directory. Alternatively, one can run the code from the provided *.Rnw
template file from within R interactively.
Workflow includes following steps:
Tophat2
(or any other RNA-Seq aligner)sessionInfo()
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