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Exercise 3: Run nf-core/sarek using a liver samples

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What is NAFLD?

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition characterized by an accumulation of fat in liver cells (hepatocytes). Excess fat in the liver can lead to significant damage over the years. There are two types of NAFLD:

  1. Non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL)

  2. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

NAFL (Non-alcoholic fatty liver) - It is a benign condition and in this fat is accumulated in the liver that can cause inflammation of liver but not a progressive damage or complications of the liver. This may result in abdominal discomfort or pain due to an enlarged liver (hepatomegaly).

NASH (Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) – It is a malignant condition and in this fat is accumulated in the liver can cause scarring of liver, liver fibrosis and liver damage further it can cause cirrhosis of liver (also called as end-stage liver disease), further cirrhosis of the liver may lead to liver cancer.

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The pipeline requires preparing at least 2 files:

  • Metadata file (samplesheet.csv) thatspecifies the following information:

Code Block
patient,sample,lane,fastq_1,fastq_2
ID1,S1,L002,/full/path/to/ID1_S1_L002_R1_001.fastq.gz,/full/path/to/ID1_S1_L002_R2_001.fastq.gz
  • PBS Pro script (launch_nf-core_sarek_trio.pbs) with instructions to run the pipeline

Create the metadata file (samplesheet.csv):

Change to the data folder directory:

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Code Block
cp /work/training/sarek/scripts/create_samplesheet_nf-core_sarek.py $HOME/workshop/sarek/data/trio
  • Note: you could replace ‘$HOME/workshop/sarek/data’ with “.” A dot indicates ‘current directory’ and will copy the file to the directory where you are currently located

Check help option on how to run the script:

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Copy the PBS Pro script for running the nf-core/sarek pipeline (launch_nf-core_sarek_trio.pbs)

Copy and paste the code below to the terminal:

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cp $HOME/workshop/sarek/data/WES/trio/samplesheet.csv $HOME/workshop/sarek/runs/run2_sarek_trio
cp $HOME/workshop/sarek/scripts/launch_nf-core_sarek_trio.pbs $HOME/workshop/sarek/runs/run2_trio
cd $HOME/workshop/sarek/runs/run2_trio
  • Line 1: Copy the samplesheet.csv file generated above to the working directory

  • Line 2: copy the launch_nf-core_sarek_trio.pbs submission script to the working directory

  • Line 3: move to the working directory

View the content of the launch_nf-core_RNAseq_QC.pbs script:

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#!/bin/bash -l

#PBS -N nfsarek_run2_trio

#PBS -l walltime=48:00:00

#PBS -l select=1:ncpus=1:mem=5gb

 

cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR

NXF_OPTS='-Xms1g -Xmx4g'

module load java

 

#specify the nextflow version to use to run the workflow

export NXF_VER=23.10.1

 

#run the sarek pipeline

nextflow run nf-core/sarek \

        -r 3.3.2 \

        -profile singularity \

        --genome GATK.GRCh38 \

        --input samplesheet.csv \

        --wes \

        --outdir ./results \

        --step mapping \

        --tools haplotypecaller,snpeff,vep \

        --snpeff_cache /work/training/sarek/NXF_SINGULARITY_CACHEDIR/snpeff_cache \

        --vep_cache /work/training/sarek/NXF_SINGULARITY_CACHEDIR/vep_cache \

        -resume

  • The above script will screen for germline (inherited) mutations using GATK’s haplotypecaller and then annotate the identified variants using snpeff and VEP.

  • Version 3.3.2 allows running the pipeline to do quality assessment only, without any alignment, read counting, or trimming.

  • The pipeline enables use to start at distinct stages, we are commencing from the start “--step mapping”

Submitting the job

Once you have created the folder for the run, the samplesheet.csv file, and launch.pbs, you are ready to submit the job to the HPC scheduler:

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qsub launch_nf-core_sarek_trio.pbs

Monitoring the Run

Code Block
qjobs

to check on the jobs, you are running. Nextflow will launch additional jobs during the run.

You can also check the .nextflow.log file for details on what is going on.

Once the pipeline has finished running - Assess the results as follows:

NOTE: To proceed, you need to be on QUT’s WiFi network or signed via VPN.

To browse the working folder in the HPC type in the file finder:

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