Overview
In this section we’ll be revisiting the variant calling workflows from sessions 2 and 3. Specifically we’ll be doing some further analysis of the nfcore/sarek output.
In the ‘2.Setup’ section, you downloaded 3 nfcore/sarek runs to H:/workshop/sarek/runs. These represent sarek variant calling results from the 3 exercises run in session 2:
Exercise 2: Running the sarek variant calling pipeline with a family trio data (NA12878, NA12891, NA12892)
Exercise 3: Running the sarek variant calling pipeline with liver samples
Exercise 4: Use learned skills to prepare and run variant analysis for a second family trio (HG005, HG006, HG007)
See ‘Session 2 - Variant calling analysis’ for more details on the experimental datasets.
SNPeff and SNPSift
There is a variety of ways to analyse variant data, but we’ll specifically be looking at SNPeff results, which is a variant annotation and functional effect prediction tool that is run as part of the sarek pipeline.
https://pcingola.github.io/SnpEff/
SNPeff annotates each variant according to the annotation information available for the genome - whether the variant is an insertion or deletion, which genomic region it falls under (introns, exons, splice junctions, promoter regions, etc). It also categorises variants as HIGH, MODERATE or LOW impact, depending on how the variant affects codons, amino acids and protein structure.
SNPeff creates its own variant analysis reports (html reports) for each sample, which can be seen here:
H:/workshop/sarek/runs/run2_trio/results/reports/snpeff/haplotypecaller
We’ll be creating our of reports, with some additional functional information, using R.
R Markdown
We’ll be creating html reports using R Markdown. These reports contain ‘chunks’ of R code and markdown language, which allows text, headings, etc to be added to a report.
https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
As an example, in RStudio, select
‘File’ → “New File” → “R markdown”
Then click ‘OK’
This will create a basic example markdown report.
Click ‘Knit’ to generate the report. It will ask you to name the file and ask where to save the file. Call it ‘test’ and save it in H:/workshop
You will see it generates the test html report.
Functional analysis
For our report we will be taking the SNPeff results and seeing if the list of variants, and the genes associated with them, are overrepresented in metabolic pathways.
To do this we will use the R clusterProfiler package, which examines enrichment of Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways and Gene Ontology (GO) terms, based on a set of input genes. In this case, the genes associated with the SNPeff variants.
Initial setup
The R script and R Markdown scripts have already been created, so you’ll just need to open them in RStudio.
In RStudio, select ‘File’ → “Open File”
Browse to H:/workshop/sarek/runs/run2_trio
Select the ‘modify.R’ file and click ‘Open’.
Open the ‘function_report.Rmd’ file in the same way (it’s in the same location as modify.R)
These are the two files you’ll need to generate the reports.
G:\Other computers\Home PC\Desktop\QUT\Liver_exome_variants\sarek