vdjtools on Biowulf

A comprehensive analysis framework for T-cell and B-cell repertoire sequencing data.

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 --mem=4g
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 ~]$ module load vdjtools

[user@cn3144 ~]$ java -Xmx4g -jar $VDJ_JAR
VDJtools V1.1.10

Run as $java -jar vdjtools-1.1.10.jar ROUTINE_NAME arguments

[Basic]
CalcBasicStats
CalcSpectratype
CalcSegmentUsage
PlotFancySpectratype
PlotSpectratypeV
PlotFancyVJUsage

[Diversity]
CalcDiversityStats
RarefactionPlot
PlotQuantileStats

[Overlap]
OverlapPair
CalcPairwiseDistances
ClusterSamples
TestClusters
TrackClonotypes

[Preprocessing]
ApplySampleAsFilter
FilterNonFunctional
FilterByFrequency
DownSample
Decontaminate
FilterBySegment
SelectTop

[Operation]
PoolSamples
JoinSamples
(Enrichment) -> Deprecated

[Annotation]
(ScanDatabase) -> moved to VDJdb since 1.0.5, please visit vdjdb.cdr3.net
CalcCdrAaStats
CalcDegreeStats
Annotate
SegmentsToFamilies

[Util]
FilterMetadata
SplitMetadata
Convert
RInstall

* Run with 'discard_scripts' option prior to ROUTINE_NAME to clean up R scripts upon execution

[user@cn3144 ~]$ java -Xmx4g -jar $VDJ_JAR CalcBasicStats -h
usage: CalcBasicStats [options] [sample1 sample2 sample3 ... if -m is not
                      specified] output_prefix
 -h                         display help message
 -m,--metadata    Metadata file. First and second columns should
                            contain file name and sample id. Header is
                            mandatory and will be used to assign column
                            names for metadata.
 -u,--unweighted            Will count each clonotype only once, apart
                            from conventional frequency-weighted
                            histogram.

[user@cn3144 ~]$ java -Xmx4g -jar $VDJ_JAR CalcBasicStats sample1 sample2 sample3

[user@cn3144 ~]$ 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. vdjtools.sh). For example:

#!/bin/bash
module load vdjtools
java -Xmx4g -jar $VDJ_JAR CalcBasicStats sample1 sample2 sample3

Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.

sbatch --mem=4g vdjtools.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. vdjtools.swarm). For example:

java -Xmx4g -jar $VDJ_JAR CalcBasicStats sample1 
java -Xmx4g -jar $VDJ_JAR CalcBasicStats sample2 
java -Xmx4g -jar $VDJ_JAR CalcBasicStats sample3

Submit this job using the swarm command.

swarm -f vdjtools.swarm -g 4 --module vdjtools
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 vdjtools Loads the vdjtools module for each subjob in the swarm