PAKAP

INTRODUCTION (from paper?)

We have established a Present/Absent Kmer Analysis Pipeline (PAKAP). By reducing each read to component k-mers and comparing the relative abundance of these sub-sequences, we overcome statistical limitations of whole read comparative analysis.

PAKAP consists of a series of scripts written in Perl, Python and Bash scripts and requires Jellyfish [Marcais 2011] as well as optionally SOAPaligner. The scripts are freely available for non-commercial use.

What does PAKAP depend on?

• Jellyfish for fast kmer counting
• Some non-standard Perl modules:
  • bioperl
    • Bio::SeqIO
    • Bio::SearchIO
  • Parallel::ForkManager
  • Statistics::Descriptive
  • Config::IniFiles
  • GD::Graph::linespoints (for the script identifyKmerSize)
• Optional: SOAPaligner

Download

• Latest Version 1.0:
  • INSERT LINK

How to install?

• Download the [link_here DiffKAP package].

How to run?

• Create your project configuration file by using the example config file. Here it is:

The command is:

   python pipeline.py 
        --s1 ./truncated/truncated_2.150.1sd/truncated_2.150.1sd.R1.fasta ./truncated/truncated_2.150.1sd/truncated_2.150.1sd.R2.fasta 
        --s2 ./whole/whole_2.150.1sd/whole_2.150.1sd.R1.fasta ./whole/whole_2.150.1sd/whole_2.150.1sd.R2.fasta 
        -c default.config  
        -o output_folder/

or, easier:

   python pipeline.py 
        --s1 ./truncated/truncated_2.150.1sd/truncated_2.150.1sd.R?.fasta
        --s2 ./whole/whole_2.150.1sd/whole_2.150.1sd.R?.fasta
        -c default.config  
        -o output_folder/

This will read the configuration from default.config and generate all output files in output_folder.

How to interpret the results?

• You can download the results of the sample data here.

Reference

• Marçais, G. and Kingsford, C. (2011) A fast, lock-free approach for efficient parallel counting of occurrences of k-mers, Bioinformatics, 27, 764-770.

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