Paired end alignment using Bpipe

This is a continuation of my post on getting started with Bpipe. In this post I followed the paired end alignment example from the documentation, with a few adjustments. This pipeline generates a random reference sequence, generates paired end reads from the reference, and aligns these reads back to the reference using BWA.

Here's the pipeline file (pipeline.groovy):

SEED=31
REF_SIZE=1000000
REF="test.fa"
READ_NO=10000
READ_LEN=100
INNER_DIST=400

random_ref = {
   // Usage: generate_random_seq.pl <bp> <seed>
   exec "generate_random_seq.pl $REF_SIZE $SEED > $REF"
}

index_ref = {
   exec "bwa index $REF"
}

random_read = {
   // Usage: random_paired_end.pl <infile.fa> <read length> <number of pairs> <inner mate distance> <seed>
   exec "random_paired_end.pl $REF $READ_LEN $READ_NO $INNER_DIST $SEED"
}

bwa_align = {
   from(glob("*.fq")) {
      transform("sai","sai","bam"){
         multi "bwa aln $REF $input1.fq > $output1",
               "bwa aln $REF $input2.fq > $output2"

         exec """
            bwa sampe $REF $output1 $output2 $input1.fq $input2.fq |
            samtools view -bS - |
            samtools sort - $output.bam.prefix
         """
      }
   }
}

Bpipe.run { random_ref + index_ref + random_read + bwa_align }

Here's the generate_random_seq.pl script:

Here's the random_paired_end.pl script:

Finally here's the Makefile:

all:
        bpipe run pipeline.groovy

clean:
        rm -rf commandlog.txt .bpipe *.fq *.fa* *.sai *.bam

To run this pipeline, download the two Perl scripts, create the Makefile, and the pipeline.groovy as above, and put them all into the same directory and type:

make
#type make clean to delete all the generated files

[snipped]
======================================== Pipeline Succeeded ========================================
11:02:01 MSG:  Finished at Thu Jun 04 11:02:01 WST 2015
11:02:01 MSG:  Outputs are: 
                l100_n10000_d400_31_1.sai
                l100_n10000_d400_31_2.sai
                l100_n10000_d400_31_1.bam

#the final alignment file is the BAM file
#and should have the same md5 output
#md5sum on Linux
md5 l100_n10000_d400_31_1.bam
MD5 (l100_n10000_d400_31_1.bam) = a77b2b726e64210a6b10baa9fe377220

Summary

The pipeline is fairly straight-forward; the purpose of this post was to create a working example of a Bpipe pipeline for paired end alignment as I could not follow the paired end example on the Bpipe documentation. There will be more posts in the near future on using Bpipe to build different types of bioinformatics pipelines.