Platypus on Biowulf

Platypus is a tool designed for efficient and accurate variant-detection in high-throughput sequencing data.

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Documentation
Important Notes

Interactive job
Interactive jobs should be used for debugging, graphics, or applications that cannot be run as batch jobs.

Allocate an interactive session and run the program. Sample session:

[user@biowulf]$ sinteractive --gres lscratch:1
salloc.exe: Pending job allocation 46116226
salloc.exe: job 46116226 queued and waiting for resources
salloc.exe: job 46116226 has been allocated resources
salloc.exe: Granted job allocation 46116226
salloc.exe: Waiting for resource configuration
salloc.exe: Nodes cn3144 are ready for job
[user@cn3144 ~]$ cd /lscratch/$SLURM_JOBID
[user@cn3144 46116226]$ module load platypus
[+] Loading platypus, version 0.8.1...
[user@cn3144 46116226]$ platypus callVariants \
> --bamFiles /fdb/app_testdata/bam/hg19/gcat_set_053.bam \
> --refFile /fdb/igenomes/Homo_sapiens/UCSC/hg19/Sequence/WholeGenomeFasta/genome.fa \
> --output gcat_set_053.vcf 
2017-09-29 14:53:42,435 - INFO - Beginning variant calling
2017-09-29 14:53:42,435 - INFO - Output will go to gcat_set_053.vcf
2017-09-29 14:53:42,710 - INFO - Processing region chr1:0-100000. (Only printing this message every 10 regions of size 100000)
2017-09-29 14:53:43,061 - INFO - Processing region chr1:1000000-1100000. (Only printing this message every 10 regions of size 100000)
...
...
2017-09-29 15:04:50,820 - INFO - Processing region chrY:58300000-58400000. (Only printing this message every 10 regions of size 100000)
2017-09-29 15:04:51,941 - INFO - Processing region chrY:59300000-59373566. (Only printing this message every 10 regions of size 100000)
2017-09-29 15:04:51,947 - INFO - Merging output VCF file(s) into final file gcat_set_053.vcf
2017-09-29 15:04:55,587 - INFO - Finished merging VCF file(s)
2017-09-29 15:04:55,591 - INFO - Finished variant calling
[user@cn3144 46116226]$ exit
salloc.exe: Relinquishing job allocation 46116226
[user@biowulf ~]$

Batch job
Most jobs should be run as batch jobs.

Create a batch input file (e.g. platypus.sh). For example:

#!/bin/sh

set -e
module load platypus

platypus callVariants \
 --bamFiles /fdb/app_testdata/bam/hg19/gcat_set_053.bam \
 --refFile /fdb/igenomes/Homo_sapiens/UCSC/hg19/Sequence/WholeGenomeFasta/genome.fa \
 --output gcat_set_053.vcf

Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.

sbatch [--cpus-per-task=#] [--mem=#] platypus.sh
Swarm of Jobs
A swarm of jobs is an easy way to submit a set of independent commands requiring identical resources.

Create a swarmfile (e.g. platypus.swarm). For example:

platypus callVariants --bamFiles input1.bam --refFile hg19.fa --output input1.vcf
platypus callVariants --bamFiles input2.bam --refFile hg19.fa --output input2.vcf
platypus callVariants --bamFiles input3.bam --refFile hg19.fa --output input3.vcf
platypus callVariants --bamFiles input4.bam --refFile hg19.fa --output input4.vcf

Submit this job using the swarm command.

swarm -f platypus.swarm [-g #] [-t #] --module platypus
where
-g # Number of Gigabytes of memory required for each process (1 line in the swarm command file)
-t # Number of threads/CPUs required for each process (1 line in the swarm command file).
--module platypus Loads the platypus module for each subjob in the swarm