nf-core/pangenome is a bioinformatics best-practise analysis pipeline for the rendering of a collection of sequences into a pangenome graph. Its goal is to build a graph that is locally directed and acyclic while preserving large-scale variation. Maintaining local linearity is important for interpretation, visualization, mapping, comparative genomics, and reuse of pangenome graphs**.
The pipeline is built using Nextflow, a workflow tool to run tasks across multiple compute infrastructures in a very portable manner. It comes with docker containers making installation trivial and results highly reproducible.
Warning: The Dockerfile Github Action is not running, yet. Therefore, make sure you always have the latest image. Another caveat is that you need to clone the repository before you can execute the pipeline. Once we have an automated docker image build on nf-core
, these inconveniences will be gone.
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Install
nextflow
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Install any of
Docker
,Singularity
,Podman
,Shifter
orCharliecloud
for full pipeline reproducibility (please only useConda
as a last resort; see docs) -
Build the current docker image if necessary
docker build --no-cache . -t nfcore/pangenome:dev
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Test the workflow on a minimal dataset
nextflow run nf-core/pangenome -profile test,<docker/singularity/podman/shifter/charliecloud/conda/institute>
Please check nf-core/configs to see if a custom config file to run nf-core pipelines already exists for your Institute. If so, you can simply use
-profile <institute>
in your command. This will enable eitherdocker
orsingularity
and set the appropriate execution settings for your local compute environment. -
Start running your own analysis!
nextflow run nf-core/pangenome -profile <docker/singularity/podman/shifter/charliecloud/conda/institute> --input "input.fa.gz"
See usage docs for all of the available options when running the pipeline.
The nf-core/pangenome pipeline comes with documentation about the pipeline: usage and output.
nf-core/pangenome was originally adapted from the pangenome graph builder pggb
pipeline by Simon Heumos, Michael Heuer.
Many thanks to all who have helped out and contributed along the way, including (but not limited to)*:
* Listed in alphabetical order
If you would like to contribute to this pipeline, please see the contributing guidelines.
For further information or help, don't hesitate to get in touch on the Slack #pangenome
channel (you can join with this invite).
You can cite the nf-core
publication as follows:
The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines.
Philip Ewels, Alexander Peltzer, Sven Fillinger, Harshil Patel, Johannes Alneberg, Andreas Wilm, Maxime Ulysse Garcia, Paolo Di Tommaso & Sven Nahnsen.
Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Feb 13. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0439-x.
In addition, references of tools and data used in this pipeline are as follows: