PACU is a workflow for whole genome sequencing based phylogeny of Illumina and ONT R9/R10 data.
PACU stands for the Prokaryotic Awesome variant Calling Utility and is named after an omnivorous fish (that eats both Illumina and ONT reads).
PACU is also available on our public Galaxy instance (registration required).
conda install -c bioconda -c conda-forge pacu_snp
If the above command fails, PACU can be installed in a new environment using the following commands:
conda create -n pacu_snp python=3.10
conda activate pacu_snp
conda install bioconda::pacu_snp -c bioconda -c conda-forge
Note: MEGA is currently not available through Conda, it can be installed manually from the link below, or
IQ-Tree can be used instead.
The PACU workflow has the following dependencies:
The mapping script has the following additional dependencies:
The corresponding binaries should be in your PATH to run the workflow. Other versions of these tools may work, but have not been tested.
The required Python packages are listed in the requirements.txt file.
Python 3.9 or 3.10 is recommended for a manual installation.
virtualenv pacu_env --python=python3.10;
. pacu_env/bin/activate;
pip install pacu_snp;
usage: PACU [-h] [--ilmn-in ILMN_IN] [--ont-in ONT_IN] --ref-fasta REF_FASTA [--ref-bed REF_BED] [--dir-working DIR_WORKING] --output OUTPUT
[--output-html OUTPUT_HTML] [--use-mega] [--include-ref] [--min-snp-af MIN_SNP_AF] [--min-snp-qual MIN_SNP_QUAL]
[--min-snp-depth MIN_SNP_DEPTH] [--min-snp-dist MIN_SNP_DIST] [--min-global-depth MIN_GLOBAL_DEPTH] [--min-mq-depth MIN_MQ_DEPTH]
[--bcftools-filt-af1] [--image-width IMAGE_WIDTH] [--image-height IMAGE_HEIGHT] [--threads THREADS] [--version]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--ilmn-in ILMN_IN Directory with Illumina input BAM files
--ont-in ONT_IN Directory with ONT input BAM files
--ref-fasta REF_FASTA
Reference FASTA file
--ref-bed REF_BED BED file with phage regions
--dir-working DIR_WORKING
Working directory
--output OUTPUT Output directory
--output-html OUTPUT_HTML
Output report name
--use-mega If set, MEGA is used for the construction of the phylogeny (instead of IQ-TREE)
--include-ref If set, the reference genome is included in the phylogeny
--min-snp-af MIN_SNP_AF
Minimum allele frequency for variants
--min-snp-qual MIN_SNP_QUAL
Minimum SNP quality
--min-snp-depth MIN_SNP_DEPTH
Minimum SNP depth
--min-snp-dist MIN_SNP_DIST
Minimum distance between SNPs
--min-global-depth MIN_GLOBAL_DEPTH
Minimum depth for all samples to include positions in SNP analysis
--min-mq-depth MIN_MQ_DEPTH
MQ cutoff for samtools depth
--skip-gubbins If set, gubbins is skipped
--bcftools-filt-af1 If enabled, allele frequency filtering also considers the VAF value
--image-width IMAGE_WIDTH
Image width
--image-height IMAGE_HEIGHT
Image height
--threads THREADS
--version Print version and exit
Note: The location of the temporary directory can be changed by setting the TMPDIR environment variable.
The PACU workflow requires BAM files as input with reads mapped to a reference genome.
Illumina data can be provided using the --ilmn-in option, ONT data can be provided using the --ont-in option.
PACU \
--ilmn-in in/ilmn/ \
--ont-in in/ont/ \
--ref-fasta ref.fasta \
--output output/ \
--dir-working work/ \
--threads 8
A script is included to map reads to a reference genome in FASTA format for both ONT and Illumina data.
The resulting BAM files can be used as input for the SNP workflow. The --trim option can be used to perform read
trimming before mapping.
Illumina data
PACU_map \
--ref-fasta genome.fasta \
--read-type illumina \
--fastq-illumina reads_1.fastq.gz reads_2.fastq.gz \
--output mapped.bam \
--threads 4
ONT data
PACU_map \
--ref-fasta genome.fasta \
--read-type ont \
--fastq-ont reads_ont.fastq.gz \
--output mapped.bam \
--threads 4
A test dataset is available under resources/testdata/bam, these files contain Escherichia coli reads mapped to a
small part of the E. coli NC_002695.2 genome. This is a not a real dataset, and should only be used for testing.
The complete workflow can be tested using the following command:
pytest --log-cli-level=DEBUG pacu/tests/test_workflow.py
Create an issue to report bugs, propose new functions or ask for help.
If you use this tool, please consider citing our publication.
Copyright - 2024 Bert Bogaerts bert.bogaerts@sciensano.be