Cbcb:Pop-Lab:16S-pipeline 16S analysis pipeline (for Gates project)

16S analysis pipeline

Assumptions:

• 16S rRNA sequences are generated with barcoded 454 and are received as either: (i) .sff file; (ii) fasta and quality file; (iii) just fasta file
• each batch is a single 96-well plate and is accompanied by a tab-delimited file containing information about the sample, including the "Sample ID", well on the plate, and additional information regarding the sample quality and DNA concentration
• we have a file that specifies the barcode and sequencing adapter used for each well (these entities do not change).

Directory structure

Gates_SOM/
   Main/
     samples.csv  - information about all the samples available to us
     454.csv      - information about all 454 runs (essentially concatenation of .csvs from 454 dir)
     phylochip.csv - information about all Phylochip runs
     IGS_Barcodes.csv - information about barcodes used to multiplex 454 runs
     scripts/     - scripts used to process the data
     454/         - here's where all 454 sequences live
       [batch1]/  - ... each batch in a separate directory
          [batch1].csv - meta-information about the batch 
          [fasta1]- fasta files containing the batch
          ... 
          [fastan]
          [batch1].part - partition file describing how the sequences get split by barcode/sample
          part/   - directory where all the partitioned files live 
       ... 
       [batchn]
     Phylochip/   - all the CEL files and auxiliary information on the Phylochip runs

Step 0: Get the sequence information

• From .SFF files (assuming these are 454 sequences)

This step uses the sff_extract program from the Staden package (if I'm not mistaken)

for i in *.sff ;do
  name=`expr $i : '\(.*\)\.sff'`
  sff_extract -c -s $name.seq -q $name.qual $i
done

Step 1: Cleanup meta-information

• Convert the Excel sheet containing the batch information into tab-delimited file (and run dos2unix) making sure the quotes added by Excel/OOffice are removed, adding the date (if not already in the file), and sorting the file by Sample ID. At this stage also check that the header row information is in canonical format.
• Add barcode information using add_barcode.pl

${SCRIPTDIR}/add_barcode.pl [batch].csv ${MAINDIR}IGS_Barcodes.csv > [batch]_barcode.csv

Step 2: Create partition file

First concatenate all the sequence files (if multiple) from a batch into a single file [batch].all.seq.

${SCRIPTDIR}/code2part.pl [batch].csv [batch].all.seq [batch] > [batch].part

The files [batch].BAD.list and [batch].NONE.list contain the names of all sequences that have failed quality checks either because they are too short, or contain Ns (BAD), or because the barcode is not recognized (NONE). The files contain additional information that can be used to troubleshoot the pipeline: sequences that are too short (< 75 454 cycles) are followed by the number of cycles, sequences that either contain Ns or have an unknown barcode are followed by the first 8 characters in the sequence.

Step 3: Break up the fasta file into separate batches by partition

• Create partition directory

mkdir part
cd part

• Partition main file into sub-parts

${SCRIPTS}/partitionFasta.pl ../[batch].all.seq ../[batch].part

The result is one fasta file per sub-partition (i.e. individual subject).

• Remove barcodes

(still in the part/ subdirectory)

for i in *.seq; do
  ${SCRIPTS}/unbarcode.pl $i
done

The output files will have the same name as the original file but with the addition of the .nbc suffix. You should remove the .nbc files from the BAD/NONE files in order to prevent their addition to the pipeline downstream.

 rm *.BAD.nbc.fa *.NONE.nbc.fa 

Step 4: Add file names to sample tables

The following needs to be run from the root of the 454 directory.

 ${SCRIPTS}/add_file.pl [batch]/[batch]_barcode.csv [batch]/part > [batch]/[batch]_names.csv 

As a result, the file [batch]/[batch]_names.csv will associate each Sample ID to a file name and also record the number of sequences in that file. Note that only files ending in .nbc.fa are procesed.

Step 5: Merge all the batch meta-info files into a same file at the top

Note: the addition of file names must be done on a batch by batch basis as multiple files might refer to a same Sample ID - within each batch it can be assumed that the Sample ID -> Filename mapping is unique. In the 454.csv file in the top directory the unique key is the file name.

 
mv ../454.csv ../454.csv.bak
${SCRIPTS}/merge_csv.pl ../454.csv.bak [batch]/[batch]_names.csv "Sample ID" non-unique > ../454.csv

This should probably be run with the filename as the key but then the tables need to be sorted by filename. Ultimately, this will all work better once the data are in a relational database.

Step 6: Update sample file

From the top directory:

• First add all new samples to the samples.csv file

 
mv samples.csv samples.csv.bak
${SCRIPTS}/merge_csv.pl samples.csv.bak 454.csv "Sample ID" unique merge > samples.csv

Note: merge means that if record keys conflict, the empty fields will be updated with the new data.

• Update the tag indicating 454 sequences available for this sample

mv samples.csv samples.csv.bak
${SCRIPTS}/update_field_csv.pl samples.csv.bak 454.csv "Sample ID" 454 Y > samples.csv

Step 7: Assign numbers to all filenames

Each file in the 454.csv file will be assigned an integer (if one is not already available). This number will be used to prefix the sequences in the combined file for the project.