snakemake

Snakemake workflow for TITAN

Description

This workflow will run the TITAN a set of tumour-normal pairs, starting from the BAM files and generating TitanCNA outputs. It will also perform model selection at the end of the workflow to choose the optimal ploidy and clonal cluster solutions.

Requirements

Software packages or libraries

• R-3.3
  • TitanCNA (v1.15.0)
    • TitanCNA imports: GenomicRanges, dplyr, data.table, doMC
  • ichorCNA (v0.1.0)
  • HMMcopy
  • optparse
  • stringr
  • SNPchip
• Python 3.4
  • snakemake-3.12.0
  • PySAM-0.11.2.1
  • PyYAML-3.12
• samtools v1.3.1
• bcftools v1.1
• HMMcopy Suite.
  -In particular, readCounter is used.

Scripts/executables

• readCounter (C++ executable; HMMcopy Suite)
• ichorCNA.R (ichorCNA tool for normalizing and correcting read coverage)
• countPysam.py (generates input allele counts)
• titanCNA.R (main R script to run TitanCNA)
• selectSolution.R (R script to select optimal solution for each sample)

Tumour-Normal sample list

The list of tumour-normal paired samples should be defined in a YAML file. See config/samples.yaml for an example. Both fields samples and pairings must to be provided. pairings key must match the tumour sample while the value must match the normal sample.

samples:
  tumor_sample_1:  /path/to/bam/tumor.bam
  normal_sample_1:  /path/to/bam/normal.bam


pairings:
  tumor_sample_1:  normal_sample_1

snakefiles

1. ichorCNA.snakefile
2. getAlleleCounts.snakefile
3. TitanCNA.snakefile

Invoking the full snakemake workflow for TITAN

# show commands and workflow
snakemake -s TitanCNA.snakefile -np
# run the workflow locally using 5 cores
snakemake -s TitanCNA.snakefile --cores 5
# run the workflow on qsub using a maximum of 50 jobs. Broad UGER cluster parameters can be set directly in config/cluster.sh. 
snakemake -s TitanCNA.snakefile --cluster-sync "qsub" -j 50 --jobscript config/cluster.sh

This will also run both ichorCNA.snakefile and getAlleleCounts.snakefile which generate the necessary inputs for TitanCNA.snakfile.

ichorCNA.snakefile and getAlleleCounts.snakefile can also be invoked separately. If only one but not both results are needed, then you can invoke the snakefiles independently.

snakemake -s ichorCNA.snakefile --cores 5
# OR
snakemake -s getAlleleCounts.snakefile --cores 5