Workflow for phylogenetic compression
of microbial genomes, producing highly compressed .tar.xz
genome archives.
MiniPhy first estimates the evolutionary history
of user-provided genomes
and then uses it for guiding their compression using XZ.
The resulting archives can be distributed to users or
re-compressed/indexed by other methods.
For more information,
see the website of phylogenetic compression
and the associated paper.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dependencies
- 3. Installation
- 4. Usage
- 5. Citation
- 6. Issues
- 7. Changelog
- 8. License
- 9. Contacts
The user provides files of files for individual batches
in the input/
directory
and specifies the requested compression protocols in the
configuration file.
It is assumed that the input genomes are provided as batches of
phylogenetically related genomes, of up to approx. 10k genomes per batch
(for more information on batching strategies,
see the paper).
Upon the execution by make
,
MiniPhy performs phylogenetic compression
of the assemblies or associated de Bruijn graphs.
All the compressed outputs and the calculated statistics
are then placed in output/
.
- Conda (unless the use of Conda is switched off in the configuration) and ideally also Mamba (>= 0.20.0)
- GNU Make
- Python (>=3.7)
- Snakemake (>=6.2.0)
- XZ
and can be installed by Conda by
conda install -c conda-forge -c bioconda -c defaults \
make "python>=3.7" "snakemake-minimal>=6.2.0" "mamba>=0.20.0"
These are installed automatically by
Snakemake when they are requested;
for instance, ProPhyle is not installed unless Protocol 3 is used.
The specifications of individual environments
can be found in workflow/envs/
,
and they contain:
Attotree,
ETE 3,
SeqTK,
xopen,
Pandas,
Jellyfish 2,
ProphAsm,
and ProPhyle.
All non-essential dependencies across all protocols can also be
installed at once by make conda
.
Clone and enter the repository by
git clone https://github.com/karel-brinda/miniphy
cd miniphy
Alternatively, the repository can also be installed using cURL by
mkdir miniphy
cd miniphy
curl -L https://github.com/karel-brinda/miniphy/tarball/main \
| tar xvf - --strip-components=1
-
Step 1: Provide lists of input files.
For every batch, create a txt list of input files in theinput/
directory (i.e., asinput/{batch_name}.txt
. Use either absolute paths (recommended), or paths relative to the root of the Github repository (not relative to the txt files).Such a list can be generated, for instance, by
find
byfind ~/dir_with_my_genomes -name '*.fa' > input/my_first_batch.txt
The supported input file formats include FASTA and FASTQ (possibly compressed by GZip).
-
Step 2 (optional): Provide corresponding phylogenies.
Instead of estimating phylogenies by Attotree (similar functionality like Mashtree), it is possible to supply custom phylogenies in the Newick format. The tree files should be namedinput/{batch_name}.nw
, and the leave names inside should correspond to FASTA filenames (without FASTA suffixes). -
Step 3 (optional): Adjust configuration.
By editingconfig.yaml
it is possible to specify compression protocols, data analyzes, and low-level parameters (see below). -
Step 4: Run the pipeline.
Run the pipeline bymake
; this is run Snakemake with the corresponding parameters. -
Step 5: Retrieve the output files.
All output files will be located inoutput/
.
The workflow can be configured via the config.yaml
file, and
all options are documented directly there. The configurable functionality includes:
- switching off Conda,
- protocols to use (asm, dGSs, dBGs with propagation),
- analyzes to include (sequence and k-mer statistics),
- k for de Bruijn graph and k-mer counting,
- Attotree parameters (phylogeny estimation),
- XZ parameters (low-level compression), or
- JellyFish parameters (k-mer counting).
Protocol | Representation | Description | Product |
ProtocolΒ 1 (default) | Assemblies | Left-to-right reordering of the assemblies according to the phylogeny |
output/asm/{batch}.tar.xz original assemblies in FASTA (1) |
ProtocolΒ 2 (optional) | de Bruijn graphs | Simplitigs from individual assemblies, left-to-right reordering of their files |
output/pre/{batch}.tar.xz with simplitig text files, representing individual de Bruijn graphs |
ProtocolΒ 3 (optional) | de Bruijn graphs | Bottom-up k-mer propagation using ProPhyle, simplitigs at individual nodes of the tree, and left-to-right re-ordering of the obtained files |
output/post/{batch}.tar.xz output/post/{batch}.nw simplitig text files per individual nodes of the tree (2) |
(2) The original de Bruijn graphs can be obtained by merging k-mer sets along the respetive root-to-leaf paths.
MiniPhy is executed via GNU Make, which handles all parameters and passes them to Snakemake.
Here's a list of all implemented commands (to be executed as make {command}
):
######################
## General commands ##
######################
all Run everything (the default subcommand)
help Print help messages
conda Create the conda environments
clean Clean all output archives and files with statistics
cleanall Clean everything but Conda, Snakemake, and input files
cleanallall Clean completely everything
###############
## Reporting ##
###############
viewconf View configuration without comments
reports Create html report
####################
## For developers ##
####################
test Run the workflow on test data (P1)
bigtest Run the workflow on test data (P1, P2, P3)
format Reformat all source code
checkformat Check source code format
Note: make format
and make checkformat
require
YAPF and
Snakefmt, which can be installed by
conda install -c conda-forge -bioconda yapf snakefmt
.
Cluster-related parameters for Snakemake can be added via the SMK_CLUSTER_ARGS
Make variable.
Example:
make SMK_CLUSTER_ARGS="--profile my_snakemake_cluster_profile"
Tests can be run by make test
(just Protocol 1) or make bigtest
(all the protocols).
K. Brinda, L. Lima, S. Pignotti, N. Quinones-Olvera, K. Salikhov, R. Chikhi, G. Kucherov, Z. Iqbal, and M. Baym. Efficient and Robust Search of Microbial Genomes via Phylogenetic Compression. bioRxiv 2023.04.15.536996, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.15.536996
@article {PhylogeneticCompression,
author = {Karel B{\v r}inda and Leandro Lima and Simone Pignotti
and Natalia Quinones-Olvera and Kamil Salikhov and Rayan Chikhi
and Gregory Kucherov and Zamin Iqbal and Michael Baym},
title = {Efficient and Robust Search of Microbial Genomes via Phylogenetic Compression},
journal = {bioRxiv},
elocation-id = {2023.04.15.536996},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1101/2023.04.15.536996},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2023/04/16/2023.04.15.536996}
}
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