This container is part of the Environmental Viral Detection pipeline and covers variant analysis and filtering with GATK. This operation requires inputs from the GATK portion of this pipeline (specifically the VCF files).
SECURITY CONCERN: This pipeline is currently using os.system to run commands and sanitization was causing runs to fail. If running files from untrusted sources, please be sure to sanitize file names to prevent potential command injections into the container.
Like other containers in the VirSieve Pipeline, this container is expected to run within a working folder. This pipeline requires one folder of VCF files for variant annotation with an optional second folder of VCF files that have undergone higher-stringency filtering. The expected folder name for the standard-filtered VCF files is filteredVCF and for the stringent-filtered VCF files it will be alignmentArtifactFilteredVCF. VCF files will be matched between the folders by their sample name, which is considered the portion of the file name before any dots. The emphasis of this portion of the pipeline (and the pipeline itself) is to not only identify variants observed in the sample and annotate them, but also to assign them confidence rankings to help filter high-confidence varaints from what is more likely to be biological, chemical, or technical noise in the sample. Identified variants will be annotated for functional consequences, relative abundances, depths of coverage at their respective loci, and will be assigned a confidence tier between 1 and 3 as follows:
- High-confidence variants observed with sufficient frequency and passing the high-stringency filter (which is for alignment artifacts by default)
- Variants of decent confidence that did not pass the high-stringency filter. Many of these should still be valid.
- Low-confidence variants that were either poorly supported by the reads (often due to low abundance or low absolute supporting read count) as well as those flagged as having evidence supporting the variant being due to some form of noise (sequencer artifacts, chemical damage pattern, etc.) rather than true biological variation.
To run this container (presumed to be named virsievevep here), simply use the following command:
docker container run --rm -v /path/to/working/folder:/data virsievevepSome options can be set to non-default values by passing them into the container as environmental variables using the standard Docker commandline technique for setting environmental variables as follows:
| Variable | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORKINGFOLDER | string | /data | Working folder name within the container |
| INPUTFOLDER | string | /$WORKINGFOLDER/filteredVCF | The name of the incoming standard-filtered VCF folder within the working folder |
| STRINGENTVCFFOLDER | string | /$WORKINGFOLDER/alignmentArtifactFilteredVCF | A folder containing the stringent-filtered VCF files (this file should only have the highest-confidence variants listed) |
| VEPINTERMEDIATESFOLDER | string | /$WORKINGFOLDER/vepOutputs | Folder for the raw VEP outputs |
| RESULTSFOLDER | string | /$WORKINGFOLDER/results | Folder for the final outputs to be written |
We welcome and encourage contributions to this project from the microbiomics community and will happily accept and acknowledge input (and possibly provide some free kits as a thank you). We aim to provide a positive and inclusive environment for contributors that is free of any harassment or excessively harsh criticism. Our Golden Rule: Treat others as you would like to be treated.
We use a modification of Semantic Versioning to identify our releases.
Release identifiers will be major.minor.patch
Major release: Newly required parameter or other change that is not entirely backwards compatible Minor release: New optional parameter Patch release: No changes to parameters
- Michael M. Weinstein - Project Lead, Programming and Design - michael-weinstein
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE file for details. This license restricts the usage of this application for non-open sourced systems. Please contact the authors for questions related to relicensing of this software in non-open sourced systems.
We would like to thank the following, without whom this would not have happened:
- The Python Foundation
- The staff at Zymo Research
- The scientific and public health COVID response community
- Our customers