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The data pre-processing for this project is reasonably complicated. To prepare raw data for the analyses shown in this repository, we need to carry out the following major pre-processing steps:
Somatic variant calling from whole-exome sequencing (WES) data;
Expression quantification and quality control for single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data;
Donor identification for single cells from scRNA-seq reads;
Extraction of somatic variant information from scRNA-seq reads;
Inference of clonal trees from WES data;
Assignment of single cells to clones in clonal trees; and
Differential expression analyses.
Due to the structure of the dataset, computational demands and pragmatism, the steps above are implemented in distinct Snakemake workflows.
Snakefile_lane: low-level pre-processing of scRNA-seq data to be run per sequencing lane;
Snakefile_donorid: donor ID for single cells;
Snakefile_genotype_sites: extract somatic variant information from scRNA-seq data;
Snakefile_clonal_analysis: clonal tree inference, cell-clone assignment and differential expression.
The somatic variant calling from WES data was carried out by Petr Danecek and is not currently integrated with the rest of the data pre-processing workflows.
The Snakemake workflows assume a certain directory structure. Specifically, the head directory for the project should contain a data directory, which itself contains a raw for the raw sequence data (and subsequent pre-processed data).
The raw single-cell RNA-seq data can be obtained from the ArrayExpress database at EMBL-EBI under accession number E-MTAB-7167. We then expect the raw FASTQ files to be organised by sequencing lane in a fastq subdirectory within each run. That is, raw FASTQ files for cells from the same lane of sequencing should be in
data/raw/{run}/fastqwhere the {run} directory has the pattern 22[0-9]+_[1-8], reflecting the {seq_run}_{lane} (sequencing run, lane on flowcell) naming convention used by the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s DNA Pipelines group who conducted the sequencing for this project.
Due to the computational requirements and limitations of running more than tens of thousands of jobs with Snakemake (in our experience, Snakemake slows down markedly as the number of jobs to run rises above about ten thousand), we run the Snakefile_lane workflow independently for each sequencing lane separately. Details about this workflow and how to run it are provided below.
The Snakefile_genotype_sites workflow is run from the data/raw directory, while the Snakefile_donor_id and Snakefile_clonal_analysis workflows are run from the head directory for the project (i.e. head directory of this repository).
To process the raw sequence data, we also need a substantial number of reference files. These are expected to be found in the references subdirectory of this repository.
The necessary reference files include:
We use the following bioinformatics software packages in the Snakemake workflows mentioned above:
All of these packages can be installed with conda. To install these packages into your own local environment, we recommend using the supplied environment.yml file in this repository.
We have made a Docker image containing these software packages available on DockerHub. Software installed with the image can be run with Docker or Singularity (more suitable for many scientific computing environments). Singularity is tightly integrated with Snakemake enabling easy use of containerised software in the Snakemake workflows.
Note: the Snakefile_lane workflow uses some tools from GATK version 3.8, which we were unable to distribute in the Docker container above and cannot be completely installed with conda. Thus, to run the Snakefile_lane in its entirety you would need to install GATK 3.8 or run it from a Docker image distributed by the Broad Institute.
For many analyses, including cell-donor identification, clonal tree inference, cell-clone assignment and further downstream analyses, we use R packages and code. We have a separate Docker image on DockerHub with R 3.5.1 and all necessary packages installed. We bootstrap the RStudio rocker/verse Docker image, and add many Bioconductor packages to form the r-tidybioc-img image, which we then bootstrap the r-singlecell-img container that we use in the Snakemake wokflows. The image contains installations of the following key packages:
and many more than can be listed here, but can be seen in the documentation and source code for the Docker images.
As mentioned above, Snakemake has tight integration with both conda and Singularity (which can run both Singularity and Docker containers). We are not able to (easily) install GATK and the latest version of R and all of the required packages through conda, so if you want to run the pre-processing workflows in their entirety then you should use the Singularity option.
Snakefile_laneThe first step of data pre-processing is to run the Snakefile_lane workflow for the data from each sequencing lane separately.
Briefly, for expression quantification, raw scRNA-seq data in CRAM format is converted to FASTQ format with samtools, before reads are adapter- and quality-trimmed with TrimGalore!. We quantify transcript-level expression using Ensembl v75 transcripts by supplying trimmed reads to Salmon and using the “–seqBias”, “–gcBias” and “VBOpt” options. Transcript-level expression values were summarised at gene level (estimated counts). Salmon transcript-level expression values are summarised at gene level, genes are annotated with metadata from Ensembl and QC metrics are computed, all with the scater package. A short automated QC report is generated as an html file.
For donor ID and clonal analyses, we also need scRNA-seq reads to be mapped to the genome, so we apply the following steps to the per-lane raw data files as well. Trimmed FASTQ reads are aligned to the GRCh37 p13 genome with ERCC spike-in sequences with STAR in basic two-pass mode using the GENCODE v19 annotation with ERCC spike-in sequences. We further use picard and GATK version 3.8 to mark duplicate reads (MarkDuplicates), split cigar reads (SplitNCigarReads), realign indels (IndelRealigner), and recalibrate base scores (BaseRecalibrator).
For cell-donor assignment we use the GATK HaplotypeCaller to “call variants” (we actually just use read count information rather than GATK variant calls; many other approaches could be used to get this information) from the processed single-cell BAM files at 304,405 biallelic SNP sites from dbSNP build 138 that are genotyped on the Illumina HumanCoreExome-12 chip, have MAF > 0.01, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium P < 1e-03 and overlap protein-coding regions of the 1,000 most highly expressed genes in HipSci iPS cells (as determined from HipSci bulk RNA-seq data).
This workflow should be run from within each run directory containing the raw data for each sequencing lane, i.e.:
data/raw/{run}From within that directory, then we run Snakemake as so:
snakemake -s ../../../Snakefile_lane --use-singularity --jobs 400This Snakemake command uses Singularity to run software from the containers we have defined (--use-singularity), and will run up to 400 jobs simultaneously (--jobs 400).
This workflow is computationally demanding, so is best run on an HPC cluster or cloud platform. To help with this, we provide a cluster.json file in this repository that defines parameters for running this workflow in an HPC cluster environment. It defines parameters for each rule such as memory limits, job names and the cluster queue on which to run jobs. We have set this up to suit our needs running the workflow with LSF job submission on the EMBL-EBI cluster, so it likely needs some tweaking for your own setup.
snakemake -s ../../../Snakefile_lane --use-singularity --jobs 400 --latency-wait 30 --cluster-config ../../../cluster.json --cluster 'bsub -J {cluster.name} -q {cluster.queue} -n {cluster.n} -R "select[singularity] rusage[mem={cluster.memory}]" -M {cluster.memory} -o {cluster.output} -e {cluster.error}'For more details, explanation and finer control on running Snakemake, please consult the excellent Snakemake documentation.
Snakefile_donoridThe second step of data pre-processing is to run the Snakefile_donorid workflow from the head directory.
This Snakemake workflow runs cell-donor ID and QC on scRNA-seq expression data.
We merge the per-cell VCF output from GATK HaplotypeCaller across all cells using bcftools and filter variants to retain those with MAF > 0.01, quality score > 20 and read coverage in at least 3% of cells. We further filter the variants to retain only those that feature in the set of variants in the high-quality, imputed, phased HipSci genotypes and filter the HipSci donor genotype file to include the same set of variants. We then run the donor ID method in the cardelino package to obtain the most-likely donor for each cell.
We merge SingleCellExperient objects with gene expression data for each sequencing lane into a single object and conduct quality control of the scRNA-seq data with the scater package. Cells are retained for downstream analyses if they have at least 50,000 counts from endogenous genes, at least 5,000 genes with non-zero expression, less than 90% of counts from the 100 most-expressed genes in the cell, less than 20% of counts from ERCC spike-in sequences and a Salmon mapping rate of at least 40%. We assign cells to donors (for which there is a sufficiently high-confidence donor for the cell). We save a tidy, QC’d SCE object with cells assigned to donors for downstream analysis.
Finally, we split out the QC’d SCE object into per-donor SCE objects and save them to disk for later analyses. We also write to file lists of cells assigned confidently to each donor.
From the head directory, we can run this workflow as so:
snakemake -s Snakefile_donorid --use-singularity --jobs 100 See the example above for how to extend this command to run the workflow in an HPC cluster environment.
Snakefile_genotype_sitesOnce the Snakefile_lane and Snakefile_donorid worklows have been completed, we can run the Snakefile_genotype_sites workflow to “genotype” somatic variants in single cells (or, more specifically, extract reference and alternative allele counts at somatic variant sites across cells). This worklow is run from the head directory.
Input files:
data/exome-point-mutations/high-vs-low-exomes.v62.regions_to_call.tsvdata/donor-cell-lists/*.qc-pass.cells.txtOutput files:
For cell-clone assignment we require read the read counts supporting reference and alternative alleles at somatic variant sites. We use bcftools mpileup and call methods to call variants at somatic variant sites derived from bulk whole-exome data, as described above, for all confidently assigned cells for each given line. Variant sites are filtered to retain variants with more than three reads observed across all cells for the line and quality greater than 20. The workflow produces a VCF file for each line and a merged BAM file with all reads from all assigned cells for each line.
From the head directory, we can run this workflow as so:
snakemake -s Snakefile_genotype_sites --use-singularity --jobs 100 See the example above for how to extend this command to run the workflow in an HPC cluster environment.
Snakefile_clonal_analysisThis final Snakemake workflow, to be fun after the preceding workflows have been run to completion, defines four sets of differently filtered somatic variants and runs Canopy clonal tree inference, cardelino assignment of cells to clones and differential gene and pathway analyses for each set of somatic variants.
We define four sets of filtered sets of somatic variants for each donor:
For “non-zero cell coverage” filtering, input sites are further filtered to those that have non-zero read coverage in at least one cell assigned to the corresponding line.
We infer the clonal structure of the fibroblast cell population for each of the lines (donors) using Canopy (Jiang et al., 2016) for each filtering setting. We use read counts for the variant allele and total read counts at filtered somatic mutation sites from high-coverage whole-exome sequencing data from the fibroblast samples as input to Canopy. We use the BIC model selection method in Canopy to choose the optimal number of clones per donor. Here, for each of the lines, we consider the highest-likelihood clonal tree produced by Canopy, along with the estimated prevalence of each clone and the set of somatic variants tagging each clone as the given clonal tree for cell-clone assignment.
For each donor, for each filtering setting, we then assign cells to clones identified by Canopy using cardelino and then conduct differential gene and pathway analyses using quasi-likelihood F test method in the edgeR package and the camera method in the limma package.
From the head directory, we can run this workflow as so:
snakemake -s Snakefile_clonal_analysis --use-singularity --jobs 100 See the example above for how to extend this command to run the workflow in an HPC cluster environment.
Once the wokflows above have been run successfully, all of the necessary processed data and preliminary results will have been generated that are necessary to produce the final results presented in the paper.
To reproduce the analyses presented in the paper, consult the RMarkdown files in the analysis folder of the source code repository.
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