GotCloud: Variant Calling Pipeline

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The Variant Calling Pipeline (UMAKE) takes recalibrated BAM files and detects SNPs and calls their genotypes, producing VCF files.

Input Data:

• Aligned/Processed/Recalibrated BAM files
• Index file containing Sample IDs & BAM file names
• Reference files
• (Optional) Configuration file to override default options

BAM files

The BAM files need to be duplicate-marked and base-quality recalibrated in order to obtain high quality SNP calls.

FASTQs can be converted to this type of BAM using the Mapping Pipeline.

Index File

Each line of the index file represents each individual under the following format. Note that multiple BAMs per individual may be provided.

[SAMPLE_ID]    [COMMA SEPARATED POPULATION LABELS] [BAM_FILE1] [BAM_FILE2] ...

Columns:

1. sample id
2. comma separated population labels
3. BAM File 1
4. BAM File 2 (if applicable)

...

# BAM File N

Reference Files

Reference files are required for doing Variant Calling.

• Reference Sequence in fasta format.
  • Configuration File Setting: REF = path/file.fa
• Indel VCF File Prefix
  • Configuration File Setting: INDEL_PREFIX = path/indels.sites.hg19
  • path/ contains indels.sites.hg19.chr20.vcf for each chromosome being processed
• DBSNP File Prefix
  • Configuration File Setting: DBSNP_PREFIX = path/dbsnp_135_b37.rod
  • path/ contains dbsnp_135_b37.rod.chr20.map for each chromosome being processed
• HapMap3 polymorphic site prefix
  • Configuration File Setting: HM3_PREFIX = path/hapmap3.qc.poly
  • path/ contains hapmap3.qc.poly.chr20.bim & hapmap3.qc.poly.chr20.frq for each chromosome being processed

A set of reference files can be downloaded from: [| FTP Download of Full Resource Files]

Configuration File Example Reference Settings:

REF = path/file.fa
INDEL_PREFIX = path/indels.sites.hg19
DBSNP_PREFIX = path/dbsnp_135_b37.rod
HM3_PREFIX = path/hapmap3.qc.poly

Configuration File

Configuration file contains the run-time options including the software binaries and command line arguments. A default configuration file is automatically loaded. Users must specify their own configuration file specifying just the values different than the defaults.

Comments begin with a #

Format: KEY = value

Where KEY is the item being set and value is its new value

Required User Config Files Settings

The following Config File Settings must be specified by the user:

• CHRS = space separated list of chromosomes you want
• BAM_INDEX = path to the Index File of BAMs

Required on Command-Line or in Config File

The following Command-Line or Config File Settings must be specified by the user:

• --outdir/OUTDIR= path to desired output directory

Targeted/Exome Sequencing Settings

If you are running Targeted/Exome Sequencing, the user should specify:

• Write loci file when performing pileup
  • WRITE_TARGET_LOCI = TRUE
• Specify the directory to store target information, for example: targetDir
  • TARGET_DIR = targetDir

If all individuals have the same target:

• Specify the single bed file, for example: target.bed
  • UNIFORM_TARGET_BED = target.bed

If not all individuals have the same target:

• Specify the file containing the sample id -> bed map, for example: targetMap.txt
  • MULTIPLE_TARGET_MAP = targetMap.txt
    • Each line of the file contains [SM_ID] [TARGET_BED]

Optional Settings:

• Extend the target region by a given number of bases, for example: 50
  • OFFSET_OFF_TARGET = 50
• Exclude off-target regions when using samtools view (may make command line too long)
  • SAMTOOLS_VIEW_TARGET_ONLY = TRUE

Configure Reference Files

See Reference Files for information on how to specify the reference files.

Chromosome X Calling

• PED_INDEX = pedfile.ped

Running

Running umake is straightforward:

/usr/local/biopipe/bin/umake.pl --conf umake.conf --snpcall --numjobs 2

Replace umake.conf with the approprate path/name of the user's configuration file.

If OUTDIR is not defined in the configuration file, add --outdir followed by the path to the user's desired output directory.

Update the value following --numjobs to the appropriate number of jobs that the user wants to run in parallel.

Running on a Cluster

To run on the Cluster, the following settings need to be added to the configuration file:

SLEEP_MULT =     20
MOS_PREFIX =     # PREFIX FOR MOSIX COMMAND (BLANK IF UNUSED)
MOS_NODES =      # COMMA-SEPARATED LIST OF NODES TO SUBMIT JOBS
REMOTE_PREFIX =  # REMOTE_PREFIX : Set if cluster node see the directory differently (e.g. /net/mymachine/[original-dir])

Set the MOS_NODES to the appropriate node list.

Update MOS_PREFIX to the applicable prefix.

• For MOSIX, use:

MOS_PREFIX = mosrun -E/tmp -t -i