Snakemake workflow: align-and-demultiplex

A Snakemake workflow for Multiome ATAC + Gene Expression sequencing alignment with cellranger and demultiplex with demuxlet.

Usage

This pipeline needs the following inputs:
- A list of multiplexed fastq files (libraries.csv file);
- VCF files with genotypes for each sample in the pool (data/genotypes)

Inputs

• The libraries.csv file:

It has the following columns: pool_id, fastqs, sample, and library_type. It is similar to the one required by cellranger-arc, with the addition of the pool_id column. Here's an example:

pool_id,fastqs,sample,library_type
pool1,/fs/ess/PAS2694/Data/Karch_multiome_SR004606_10X/FASTQ,NDRI_ADRC_Frontal_and_Cerebellum_Pool1,Gene Expression
pool1,/fs/ess/PAS2694/Data/Karch_multiome_SR004606_10X/FASTQ,NDRI_ADRC_Frontal_and_Cerebellum_Pool1_atac,Chromatin Accessibility
pool2,/fs/ess/PAS2694/Data/Karch_multiome_SR004606_10X/FASTQ,NDRI_ADRC_Frontal_and_Cerebellum_Pool2,Gene Expression
pool2,/fs/ess/PAS2694/Data/Karch_multiome_SR004606_10X/FASTQ,NDRI_ADRC_Frontal_and_Cerebellum_Pool2_atac,Chromatin Accessibility

• Genotypes:

The populate_data.sh script will create soft links for the VCFs on the data/genotypes directory. Make sure all VCFs are following the sample naming convention.

Pipeline configuration

The config file for this pipeline is at config/config.yaml. These are some parameters that need attention:

• Cellranger-arc:

  • libraries: Path to the libraries.csv file. I usually put it at data/libraries.csv.
  • cellrangerarc_path: Path to the cellranger executable. E.g. /users/PAS2713/iaradsouza1/cellranger-arc-2.0.2/cellranger-arc
  • refdir: Path to the reference directory for cellranger-arc. Check cellranger-arc docs to download it.
  • jobmode: Path to the slurm template to be used by cellranger-arc to trigger jobs on slurm. An example can be found at assets/slurm.template.

• Skip vcf sorting?

  • skip_vcf_sort: Default set to False. It has an optional step to normalize VCF files based on the bam files produced by cellranger-arc.

• Demuxlet

• genotypes: Path to the directory containing the VCF files. E.g. data/genotypes.
• conda_env: Conda environment name for demuxlet and picard. The environment file is at workflow/envs/demuxlet.yml.

Run pipeline on the OSC

1. Create conda environment

conda env create -f workflow/envs/demuxlet.yml

2. Create symbolic links for VCF files

Edit the incoming_dir variable on the populate_data.sh to the path where VCFs are located. Then run bash populate_data.sh.

3. Set up the slurm.template for cellranger

An example is provided on assets/slurm.template. Set the path for your template on the config/config.yaml file.

Optional: Create a snakemake environment and install slurm executor plugin. This pipeline considers snakemake version >= 8

conda create -n snakemake -c bioconda snakemake
conda activate snakemake
pip install snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm

4. Run snakemake

On the pipeline root directory, run:

conda activate snakemake
snakemake --use-conda --rerun-incomplete --scheduler=greedy --dry-run  ## dry-run the pipeline
snakemake --use-conda --rerun-incomplete --scheduler=greedy

Profile configuration

The slurm configuration for the profile can be found at profiles/default/config.yaml.

TODO

• Add cellranger-arc to a container
• Automatically download and set up cellranger-arc reference.
• Add report with some statistics for the demultiplexing step.
• Test other configurations for slurm profiles based on this: https://github.com/jdblischak/smk-simple-slurm