WHATSHAP on Biowulf

WhatsHap is an application for phasing genomic variants using DNA sequencing reads.

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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 input in bold):

[user@biowulf]$ sinteractive
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 whatshap

[user@cn3144 ~]$ cd /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST

[user@cn3144 ~]$ whatshap phase -o phased.vcf input.vcf pacbio_reads_30x.bam
Working on 1 samples from 1 family
======== Working on chromosome 'contig1'
---- Processing individual SAMPLE
Using maximum coverage per sample of 15X
Number of variants skipped due to missing genotypes: 0
Number of remaining heterozygous variants: 177
Reading alignments for sample 'SAMPLE'and detecting alleles ...
WARNING: Sample 'SAMPLE' not found in any BAM/CRAM file.
Found 0 reads covering 0 variants
Kept 0 reads that cover at least two variants each
Reducing coverage to at most 15X by selecting most informative reads ...
Selected 0 reads covering 0 variants
Best-case phasing would result in 0 non-singleton phased blocks (0 in total)
... after read selection: 0 non-singleton phased blocks (0 in total)
Variants covered by at least one phase-informative read in at least one individual after read selection: 0
Phasing 1 sample by solving the MEC problem ...
MEC cost: 0
No. of phased blocks: 0
======== Writing VCF
Done writing VCF
======== Working on chromosome 'contig2'
---- Processing individual SAMPLE
Using maximum coverage per sample of 15X
Number of variants skipped due to missing genotypes: 0
Number of remaining heterozygous variants: 134
Reading alignments for sample 'SAMPLE'and detecting alleles ...
WARNING: Sample 'SAMPLE' not found in any BAM/CRAM file.
Found 0 reads covering 0 variants
Kept 0 reads that cover at least two variants each
Reducing coverage to at most 15X by selecting most informative reads ...
Selected 0 reads covering 0 variants
Best-case phasing would result in 0 non-singleton phased blocks (0 in total)
... after read selection: 0 non-singleton phased blocks (0 in total)
Variants covered by at least one phase-informative read in at least one individual after read selection: 0
Phasing 1 sample by solving the MEC problem ...
MEC cost: 0
No. of phased blocks: 0
======== Writing VCF
Done writing VCF
======== Working on chromosome 'contig3'
---- Processing individual SAMPLE
Using maximum coverage per sample of 15X
Number of variants skipped due to missing genotypes: 0
Number of remaining heterozygous variants: 165
Reading alignments for sample 'SAMPLE'and detecting alleles ...
WARNING: Sample 'SAMPLE' not found in any BAM/CRAM file.
Found 0 reads covering 0 variants
Kept 0 reads that cover at least two variants each
Reducing coverage to at most 15X by selecting most informative reads ...
Selected 0 reads covering 0 variants
Best-case phasing would result in 0 non-singleton phased blocks (0 in total)
... after read selection: 0 non-singleton phased blocks (0 in total)
Variants covered by at least one phase-informative read in at least one individual after read selection: 0
Phasing 1 sample by solving the MEC problem ...
MEC cost: 0
No. of phased blocks: 0
======== Writing VCF
Done writing VCF

== SUMMARY ==
Maximum memory usage: 0.050 GB
Time spent reading BAM/CRAM:                    0.0 s
Time spent parsing VCF:                         0.1 s
Time spent selecting reads:                     0.0 s
Time spent phasing:                             0.0 s
Time spent writing VCF:                         0.1 s
Time spent finding components:                  0.0 s
Time spent on rest:                             0.0 s
Total elapsed time:                             0.2 s

[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. whatshap.sh). For example:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
module load whatshap
whatshap phase -o /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/phased.vcf \
                  /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/input.vcf \
                  /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/pacbio_reads_30x.bam

Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.

sbatch [--cpus-per-task=#] [--mem=#] whatshap.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. whatshap.swarm). For example:

whatshap phase -o /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/phased_A.vcf \
                  /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/input_A.vcf \
                  /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/pacbio_reads_A.bam
whatshap phase -o /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/phased_B.vcf \
                  /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/input_B.vcf \
                  /data/$USER/WHATSHAP_TEST/pacbio_reads_B.bam

Submit this job using the swarm command.

swarm -f whatshap.swarm [-g #] [-t #] --module whatshap
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 whatshap Loads the whatshap module for each subjob in the swarm