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This is the template for a new Snakemake workflow. Replace this text with a comprehensive description covering the purpose and domain.
Insert your code into the respective folders, i.e.
scripts
,
rules
, and
envs
. Define the entry point of the workflow in the
Snakefile
and the main configuration in the
config.yaml
file.
Authors
- Max Schubach (@visze), Berlin Institute of Heath (BIH), JRG Computational Genome Biology
Usage
If you use this workflow in a paper, don't forget to give credits to the authors by citing the URL of this (original) repository and, if available, its DOI (see above).
Step 1: Obtain a copy of this workflow
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Create a new github repository using this workflow as a template .
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Clone the newly created repository to your local system, into the place where you want to perform the data analysis.
Step 2: Configure workflow
Configure the workflow according to your needs via editing the files in the
config/
folder. Adjust
config.yaml
to configure the workflow execution, and
samples.tsv
to specify your sample setup.
Step 3: Install Snakemake
Install Snakemake using conda :
conda create -c bioconda -c conda-forge -n snakemake snakemake
For installation details, see the instructions in the Snakemake documentation .
Step 4: Execute workflow
Activate the conda environment:
conda activate snakemake
Test your configuration by performing a dry-run via
snakemake --use-conda -n
Execute the workflow locally via
snakemake --use-conda --cores $N
using
$N
cores or run it in a cluster environment via
snakemake --use-conda --cluster qsub --jobs 100
or
snakemake --use-conda --drmaa --jobs 100
If you not only want to fix the software stack but also the underlying OS, use
snakemake --use-conda --use-singularity
in combination with any of the modes above. See the Snakemake documentation for further details.
Step 5: Investigate results
After successful execution, you can create a self-contained interactive HTML report with all results via:
snakemake --report report.html
This report can, e.g., be forwarded to your collaborators. An example (using some trivial test data) can be seen here .
Step 6: Commit changes
Whenever you change something, don't forget to commit the changes back to your github copy of the repository:
git commit -a
git push
Step 7: Obtain updates from upstream
Whenever you want to synchronize your workflow copy with new developments from upstream, do the following.
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Once, register the upstream repository in your local copy:
git remote add -f upstream git@github.com:snakemake-workflows/new_project.git
orgit remote add -f upstream https://github.com/snakemake-workflows/new_project.git
if you do not have setup ssh keys. -
Update the upstream version:
git fetch upstream
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Create a diff with the current version:
git diff HEAD upstream/master workflow > upstream-changes.diff
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Investigate the changes:
vim upstream-changes.diff
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Apply the modified diff via:
git apply upstream-changes.diff
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Carefully check whether you need to update the config files:
git diff HEAD upstream/master config
. If so, do it manually, and only where necessary, since you would otherwise likely overwrite your settings and samples.
Step 8: Contribute back
In case you have also changed or added steps, please consider contributing them back to the original repository:
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Fork the original repo to a personal or lab account.
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Clone the fork to your local system, to a different place than where you ran your analysis.
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Copy the modified files from your analysis to the clone of your fork, e.g.,
cp -r workflow path/to/fork
. Make sure to not accidentally copy config file contents or sample sheets. Instead, manually update the example config files if necessary. -
Commit and push your changes to your fork.
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Create a pull request against the original repository.
Testing
Test cases are in the subfolder
.test
. They are automatically executed via continuous integration with
Github Actions
.
Code Snippets
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | __author__ = "Jan Forster" __copyright__ = "Copyright 2019, Jan Forster" __email__ = "j.forster@dkfz.de" __license__ = "MIT" from snakemake.shell import shell ## Extract arguments extra = snakemake.params.get("extra", "") log = snakemake.log_fmt_shell(stdout=True, stderr=True) shell( "(bedtools slop" " {extra}" " -i {snakemake.input[0]}" " -g {snakemake.params.genome}" " > {snakemake.output})" " {log}" ) |
15 16 17 18 | shell: """ bedtools random -l {params.l} -n {params.n} -seed {params.seed} -g {input.genome} | bgzip -c > {output} """ |
32 33 | wrapper: "v0.69.0/bio/bedtools/slop" |
45 46 47 48 | shell: """ bedtools getfasta -fi {input.fasta} -bed {input.bed} | bgzip -c > {output} """ |
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