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Chromium Genome & Exome

Whole Genome Phasing and SV Calling

Long Ranger's Whole Genome Mode analyzes sequencing data from a Chromium-prepared library. This involves the following steps:

  1. Run longranger mkfastq on the Illumina BCL output folder to generate FASTQ files.

  2. Run longranger wgs for each sample that was demultiplexed by longranger mkfastq.

For the following example, assume that the Illumina BCL output is in a folder named /sequencing/140101_D00123_0111_AHAWT7ADXX.

Run longranger mkfastq

First, follow the instructions on running longranger mkfastq to generate FASTQ files. For example, if the flowcell serial number was HAWT7ADXX, then longranger mkfastq will output FASTQ files in HAWT7ADXX/outs/fastq_path.

Run longranger wgs

To run Long Ranger in whole genome mode, you use the longranger wgs command, with the following common parameters. For a complete list of command-line options, run longranger wgs --help.

ParameterDescription
--idA unique run ID string: e.g. sample345
--fastqsPath of the FASTQ folder generated by longranger mkfastq
e.g. /home/jdoe/runs/HAWT7ADXX/outs/fastq_path
--vcmode(required, except when specifying --precalled) Must be one of: freebayes, gatk:/path/to/GenomeAnalysisTK.jar, or disable
--sample(optional) Sample name as specified in the sample sheet supplied to mkfastq.
--downsample(optional) Specify the maximum amount of sequencing data to be used by the pipeline, in gigabases. If more data is available than this request, reads will be randomly downsampled. If less data is available, this option will have no effect.
--referencePath to a 10x compatible reference, e.g. /opt/refdata-hg19-2.1.0.
See Installation for how to download and install the default reference.
--precalled(optional) Path to a "pre-called" VCF file. Variants in this file will be phased. When setting --precalled do not specify a --vcmode
--sex(optional) Sex of the sample: male or female. Sex will be detected based on coverage if not supplied.
--somatic(optional) Supply this flag for somatic samples. This will increase the sensitivity of the large-scale SV caller for somatic SVs, by allowing the detection of sub-haplotype events. Note: this option currently does not affect small-scale variant calling. The small scale variant caller is not currently optimized for somatic variants
 The path for the pre-called VCF file must be an absolute path and the file must contain a single sample. The Long Ranger environment includes a tool called longranger mkvcf to extract samples and standardize your VCF files. Run longranger mkvcf --help for details.

After determining these input arguments, call longranger wgs:

$ cd /home/jdoe/runs
$ longranger wgs --id=sample345 \
                 --reference=/opt/refdata-hg19-2.1.0 \
                 --fastqs=/home/jdoe/runs/HAWT7ADXX/outs/fastq_path

Following a set of preflight checks to validate input arguments, Long Ranger pipeline stages will begin to run:

longranger wgs 2.2.2
Copyright (c) 2016 10x Genomics, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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Martian Runtime - 2.3.2
 
Running preflight checks (please wait)...
2016-05-01 12:00:00 [runtime] (ready)           ID.sample345.PHASER_SVCALLER_CS.PHASER_SVCALLER._ALIGNER.SETUP_CHUNKS
2016-05-01 12:00:00 [runtime] (run:local)       ID.sample345.PHASER_SVCALLER_CS.PHASER_SVCALLER._SNPINDEL_PHASER.SORT_GROUND_TRUTH
2016-05-01 12:00:00 [runtime] (run:local)       ID.sample345.PHASER_SVCALLER_CS.PHASER_SVCALLER._SNPINDEL_PHASER.SORT_GROUND_TRUTH.fork0.chnk0.main
...

By default, longranger wgs will use all of the cores available on your system to execute pipeline stages. You can specify a different number of cores to use with the --localcores option; for example, --localcores=16 will limit the pipeline to using up to sixteen cores at once. Similarly, --localmem will restrict the amount of memory (in GB) used by longranger wgs.

The pipeline will create a new folder named with the sample ID you specified (e.g. /home/jdoe/runs/sample345) for its output. If this folder already exists, Long Ranger will assume it is an existing pipestance and attempt to resume running it.

Variant Calling

longranger wgs calls SNPs and indels with GATK or Freebayes, phases those variants, and adds structural variant calls.

Alternatively, you may provide an existing VCF file as an input to the pipeline. In this "pre-called VCF" mode, longranger wgs does not call SNPs and indels itself, but phases the variants in the supplied VCF file, and also outputs structural variant calls.

As of Long Ranger 2.0, longranger wgs no longer supports setting the --vcmode argument when supplying a pre-called VCF file.

Output Files

A successful longranger wgs execution should conclude with a message similar to this:

2016-05-02 15:46:41 [runtime] (run:local)       ID.sample345.PHASER_SVCALLER_CS.PHASER_SVCALLER.LOUPE_PREPROCESS.fork0.join
2016-05-02 15:46:44 [runtime] (join_complete)   ID.sample345.PHASER_SVCALLER_CS.PHASER_SVCALLER.LOUPE_PREPROCESS
2016-05-02 15:46:55 [runtime] VDR killed 4738 files, 223GB.
 
Outputs:
- Run summary:               /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/summary.csv
- BAM barcoded:              /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/phased_possorted_bam.bam
- BAM index:                 /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/phased_possorted_bam.bam.bai
- VCF phased:                /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/phased_variants.vcf.gz
- VCF index:                 /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/phased_variants.vcf.gz.tbi
- Large-scale SV calls:      /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/large_sv_calls.bedpe
- Large-scale SV candidates: /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/large_sv_candidates.bedpe
- Large-scale SVs:           /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/large_svs.vcf.gz
- Large-scale SVs index:     /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/large_svs.vcf.gz.tbi
- Mid-scale deletions:       /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/dels.vcf.gz
- Mid-scale deletions index: /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/dels.vcf.gz.tbi
- Loupe file:                /home/jdoe/runs/sample345/outs/loupe.loupe
 
Pipestance completed successfully!

The output of the pipeline will be contained in a folder named with the sample ID you specified (e.g. sample345). The subfolder named outs will contain the main pipeline output files:

File NameDescription
summary.csvRun summary metrics in CSV format
phased_possorted_bam.bamAligned reads annotated with barcode information
phased_possorted_bam.bam.baiIndex for phased_possorted_bam.bam
phased_variants.vcf.gzVCF annotated with barcode and phasing information
phased_variants.vcf.gz.tbiIndex for phased_variants.vcf.gz
large_sv_calls.bedpeLarge-scale (≥30Kbp or inter-chromosomal) structural variant and CNV calls, excluding low confidence candidates, in BEDPE format
large_sv_candidates.bedpeLarge-scale (≥30Kbp or inter-chromosomal) structural variant and CNV calls, including low confidence candidates, in BEDPE format
large_svs.vcf.gzLarge-scale (≥30Kbp or inter-chromosomal) structural variant and CNV calls, including low confidence candidates, in VCF format
large_svs.vcf.gz.tbiIndex for large_svs.vcf.gz
dels.vcf.gzMid-scale deletion structural variant calls (50bp-30Kbp)
dels.vcf.gz.tbiIndex for dels.vcf.gz
loupe.loupeFile that can be opened in the Loupe genome browser

Once longranger wgs has successfully completed, you can browse the resulting .loupe file in the Loupe genome browser, or refer to the Understanding Output section to explore the data by hand.