BBMap (aligner for DNA/RNAseq) is now open-source and available for download.

[Franz]

How is coverage calculated in bbmap?

Hi Brian and everyone else,

I am using bbmap for my metagenomes. Currently, I am comparing the coverage of different genes across metagenomes. BBmap has the flag -rpkm, which calculates fold coverage, RPKM and FPKM. But I couldn´t find the respective formulas, how exactly it is calculated. When I tried to re-calculate these parameters, I came to different results.
Thank you very much in advance! I hope this thread is at the right position in SEQanswers.

Best,
Franz

[turnersd]

Those genotype calls are based on the read data, which are summarized in the INFO fields of the VCF. If you change the genotypes, those field data will be inconsistent.

It would be useful if you explained more clearly what you're trying to accomplish.

Yes, completely correct about GT not matching up with INFO fields. I'll probably end up removing all the info fields altogether because GT is really the only thing I'm interested in.

I've used a published simulation framework to simulate pedigrees having genotype data, and what I'm trying to do is specify a rate at which I want to mutate genotypes, i.e., to mimic allele drop-out or drop-in, each at specified rates. Mimicking a het to hom-ref would be easy if variant alleles were all I cared about (ie just deleting random rows from the VCF), but I _do_ care about genotypes at invariant sites.

My plan was to write some custom bash/python/bcftoolsy things to get out genotypes and mutate at a specified rate then stick them back into the VCF. I was just wondering if there was some existing tool to do something like this in bbmap (or elsewhere). I can't seem to find anything.

[HESmith]

Not exactly. I literally want to replace the 0/1s or 0/0s or 1/1s in the VCF, not generate reads.

Those genotype calls are based on the read data, which are summarized in the INFO fields of the VCF. If you change the genotypes, those field data will be inconsistent.

It would be useful if you explained more clearly what you're trying to accomplish.

[turnersd]

You can do it in two steps: 1) use mutate.sh on the reference genome; 2) use randomreads.sh of the mutated reference to generate the data (I assume that's what you mean by sample).

Not exactly. I literally want to replace the 0/1s or 0/0s or 1/1s in the VCF, not generate reads.

[HESmith]

You can do it in two steps: 1) use mutate.sh on the reference genome; 2) use randomreads.sh of the mutated reference to generate the data (I assume that's what you mean by sample).

[turnersd]

Insert mutations in a VCF

I see mutate.sh takes a vcf and inserts mutations in a reference genome. I need something a little different. I want to specify a mutation rate and potentially a sample, and insert mutations at that specified rate in the specified sample. Anything in bbmap that might help with this?

[reliscu]

All "N" reads in paired reads not being filtered if other read is "good"

Version 38.94

This thread details the "bug":
https://www.biostars.org/p/9493307/#9493339

[silask]

bbmap ignores minid

bbmap ignores minid parameter

This is for version 38.93 and 38.92


https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbmap/

[GenoMax]

Hi Brian,

I'm running BBMap with the rpkm output option and would like to know how to see mapped rate for each read file. I run multiple files consecutively with nohup. Here's my code:

bbmap.sh ref=data/Assembly.fasta \
in1=data/clean/A_1.clean.fq.gz \
in2=data/clean/A_2.clean.fq.gz \
rpkm=data/fpkm/A.fpkm \
t=5 &

bbmap.sh ref=data/Assembly.fasta \
in1=data/clean/B_1.clean.fq.gz \
in2=data/clean/B_2.clean.fq.gz \
rpkm=data/fpkm/B.fpkm \
t=5

etc etc

So far it's worked really well. However, while the stdout file shows the mapped rates it doesn't tell me which read files relate to which stats. It just has a number of repeated --- Results 1 ---- records and I don't know which is which.

Is there a flag I need to add to ensure I can see which stats are for which files?

Thanks!

Lisa

You should be able to use

covstats=<file>         Per-scaffold coverage info.

for each of your commands. You can also capture the stderr/out to a file to get statistics. https://linuxize.com/post/bash-redirect-stderr-stdout/

[lmusgrove]

Finding mapped rate for rpkm output

Hi Brian,

I'm running BBMap with the rpkm output option and would like to know how to see mapped rate for each read file. I run multiple files consecutively with nohup. Here's my code:

bbmap.sh ref=data/Assembly.fasta \
in1=data/clean/A_1.clean.fq.gz \
in2=data/clean/A_2.clean.fq.gz \
rpkm=data/fpkm/A.fpkm \
t=5 &

bbmap.sh ref=data/Assembly.fasta \
in1=data/clean/B_1.clean.fq.gz \
in2=data/clean/B_2.clean.fq.gz \
rpkm=data/fpkm/B.fpkm \
t=5

etc etc

So far it's worked really well. However, while the stdout file shows the mapped rates it doesn't tell me which read files relate to which stats. It just has a number of repeated --- Results 1 ---- records and I don't know which is which.

Is there a flag I need to add to ensure I can see which stats are for which files?

Thanks!

Lisa

[mewu3]

pileup.sh explication

Hello,

Can some please kindly explain the output file of pileup.sh ?

• basecov
• bincove
• covstat

How the coverage is calculated ?

[mewu3]

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError: Attempting to output paired reads to different sam files."

Typically, BBMap tools keep paired reads together. You're attempting to write aligned and unaligned reads to separate files, which violates that function.

Thank you !

[GenoMax]

@mewu3: Since paired-end reads are aligned together you should use a single "out=output.sam". If you wanted to capture unmapped reads into separate files then you would want to do that as "outu1=R1.unmapped.fq outu2=R2.unmapped.fq".

You may be able to write them out as an unmapped sam file "outu=unmapped.sam" but then again you should use only one output for that. This is untested.

[kesmarl]

Thank you very so much !

I downloaded it

[HESmith]

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError: Attempting to output paired reads to different sam files."

Typically, BBMap tools keep paired reads together. You're attempting to write aligned and unaligned reads to separate files, which violates that function.