Samtools
Setup output directory.
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mkdir samtools_bowtie
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If you do not have an alignment file in the SAM format you may want to start with Introduction to mapping.
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SAMtools is a suite of commands for dealing with databases of mapped reads. You'll be using it quite a bit throughout the course. It includes programs for performing variant calling (mpileup-bcftools).
Calling variants in reads mapped by bowtie
Right now, we'll be using it to call variants (find mutations) in the re-sequenced E. coli genome from the Mapping tutorial. You will need the output SAM files from that tutorial to continue here.
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If you do not have the output from the Mapping tutorial, run these commands to copy over the output that would have been produced. Then, you can immediately start this tutorial! Code Block |
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mkdir intro_to_mapping
cd intro_to_mapping
cp -r $BI/ngs_course/intro_to_mapping/bowtie .
cp -r $BI/ngs_course/intro_to_mapping/bwa .
cp -r $BI/ngs_course/intro_to_mapping/bowtie2 .
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We assume that you are still working in the main directory called intro_to_mapping
data that you created on $SCRATCH
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Load SAMtools
Load the SAMtools module (if not already loaded).
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module load samtools
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Can you figure out what version of samtools is loaded on TACC and where it is installed?
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samtools
which samtools
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Prepare your directories
Create a new output directory called samtools_bowtie
or whatever makes sense to you.
Let's copy over just the read alignment file in the SAM format and the reference genome in FASTA format to this new directory, so that we don't have so many files cluttering our space.
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mkdir samtools_bowtie
cp bowtie/SRR030257.sam samtools_bowtie | / REL6065/ |
Index the FASTA reference file
First, you need to index the reference file. (This isn't indexing it for read mapping. It's indexing it so that SAMtools can quickly jump to a certain base in the reference.)
Then run this command to index the reference file.
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samtools faidx samtools_bowtie/NC_012967.1.fasta
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Take a look at the new *.fai file that was created by this command. Any idea what some of the numbers mean?
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less samtools_bowtie/ | REL6065Hint: Type q to exit less. |
Convert mapped reads from SAM to BAM, sort, and index
SAM is a text file, so it is slow to access information about how any given read was mapped. SAMtools and many of the commands that we will run later work on BAM files (essentially GZIP compressed binary forms of the text SAM files). These can be loaded much more quickly. Typically, they also need to be sorted, so that when the program wants to look at all reads overlapping position 4,129,888, it can easily find them all at once without having to search through the entire BAM file.
Convert from SAM to BAM format.
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samtools view -b -bSS -o samtools_bowtie/REL606.5SRR030257.bam samtools_bowtie/REL606SRR030257.5.sam |borderStyle=solid}
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Sort and index the BAM file.
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samtools sort samtools_bowtie/SRR030257.bam samtools_bowtie/REL606.5.bam samtools_bowtie/sorted_REL606.5
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Output VCF file.
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samtools mpileup -uf samtools_bowtie/REL606.5SRR030257.sorted
samtools index samtools_bowtie/SRR030257.sorted.bam
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This is a really common sequence of commands, so you might want to add it to your personal cheat sheet.
- What new files were created by these commands?
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ls samtools_bowtie
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NC_012967.1.fasta SRR030257.sorted.bam.bai
NC_012967.1.fasta.fai SRR030257.sam
SRR030257.bam SRR030257.sorted.bam
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SRR030257.sorted.bam
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Samtools appends an extra .bam to whatever we put here, so it would have created SRR030257.sorted.bam.bam, and we would have had to make a joke about the Flintstones. |
- Can you guess what a *.bai file is?
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Sure enough, it's the index file for the BAM file. |
Hint: You might be tempted to gzip
BAM files when copying them from one computer to another. Don't bother! They are already internally compressed, so you won't be able to shrink the file. On the other hand, compressing SAM files will save a fair bit of space.
Call genome variants
Now we use the mpileup
command from samtools
to compile information about the bases mapped to each reference position.
Output BCF file. This is a binary form of the text Variant Call Format (VCF).
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samtools mpileup -u -f samtools_bowtie/NC_012967.1.fasta samtools_bowtie/SRR030257.sorted_REL606.5.bam \|bcftools view -vcg - \> samtools_bowtie/outputSRR030257.vcf
bcf
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What are all the options doing?
Convert BCF to human-readable VCF:
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bcftools view -v -c -g samtools_bowtie/sorted_REL606.5.bam
/corral-repl/utexas/BioITeam/ngs_course/mapping/SRR030257.bcf > samtools_bowtie/outputSRR030257.vcf
/corral-repl/utexas/BioITeam/ngs_course/mapping/samtools_bwa/sorted_REL606.5.bam
/corral-repl/utexas/BioITeam/ngs_course/mapping/samtools_bwa/output.vcf
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Exercise.
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What are these options doing?
Take a look at the samtools_bowtie/SRR030257.vcf
file using less
. It has a nice header explaining what the columns mean. Below this are the rows of data describing potential genetic variants.
Optional Exercises
Calling variants in reads mapped by BWA or Bowtie2
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Follow the same directions to call variants in the BWA or Bowtie2 mapped reads.
Just be sure you don't write over your old files. Maybe create new directories like samtools_bwa
and samtools_bowtie2
for the output in each case.
You could also try running all of the commands from inside of the samtools_bwa
directory, just for a change of pace.
Filtering VCF files with grep
VCF format has alternative Allele Frequency tags denoted by AF1. Try the following command to see what value values we have in our files.
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grep cat inputAF1 samtools_bowtie/SRR030257.vcf
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Optional: For the data we are dealing with, predictions with an allele frequency not equal to 1 are not really applicable. (The reference genome is haploid. There aren't any heterozygotes.) How can we remove these lines from the file and continue on?
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grep -v *something*
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cat input.vcf | grep AF1=1 > output.vcf
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Is not practical, since we will lose vital VCF formatting and may not be able to use this file in the futrefuture. Code Block |
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cat input.vcf | grep -v AF1=0 > output.vcf
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Will preserve all lines that don't have an a AF1=0 value and is one way of doing this. Code Block |
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sed -i '/AF1=0/ d' input.vcf
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Is a better way of doing it inline in-line and not requiring you to make another file. |
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/corral-repl/utexas/BioITeam/ngs_course/mapping/output/bowtie.vcf
/corral-repl/utexas/BioITeam/ngs_course/mapping/output/bwa.vcf
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Determining Differences Between Aligners.
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Comparing the results of different mappers using bedtools
You will need the output from #Calling variants in reads mapped by BWA or Bowtie2 to complete this exercise.
Often you want to compare the results of variant calling on different samples or using different pipelines. Bedtools is a suite of utility programs that work on a variety of file formats, one of which is conveniently VCF format. It provides many ways of slicing, dicing, and comparing the information in VCF files. For example, we can use it to find out what predictions are the same and which are different from the variant calling on reads mapped with different programs.
Set up a new output directory and copy the respective VCF files to it, renaming them so that we know where they came from:
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mkdir outputcomparison
cp samtools_bowtie/outputSRR030257.vcf outputcomparison/bowtie.vcf
cp samtools_bwa/outputSRR030257.vcf outputcomparison/bwa.vcf
cp samtools_bowtie2/SRR030257.vcf comparison/bowtie2.vcf
cd output
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Use the subcommands bedtools intersect
and bedtools subtract
we can find equal and different predictions between mappers. Try to figure out how to to do this on your own first. Hint: Remember that adding > output.vcf
to the end of a command will pipe the output that is to the terminal into a file, so that you can save it.
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module load bedtools
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common mutations. intersectBedintersect -a bowtie.vcf -b bwa.vcf > | intersectFinding mutations that are unique |
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for each mapper. subtractBedsubtract -a bowtie.vcf -b | intersectcommon_bowtie_bwa.vcf > unique_bowtie.vcf
bedtools | subtractBedintersectcommon_bowtie_bwa.vcf > unique_bwa.vcf
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Further Optional Exercises
- Which mapper finds more variants?
- Can you figure out how to filter the VCF files on various criteria, like coverage, quality, ... ?
- How many high quality mutations are there in these E. coli samples relative to the reference genome?
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*Look at how the reads supporting these variants were aligned to the reference genome in the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) tutorial.
*Look into more sophisticated Variant+calling+with+GATK.