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  • 454assembly using Newbler: job time expectation?

    Greetings

    I would like to know how long should the following assembly to run using newbler?

    The following are details:

    gsAssebler
    software version: 2.3
    Data: 454 data
    Input: 3 .sff files with a total of 1,434,170 reads
    Genome: eukaryotic unknown size
    Not pair end.

    I am using the command line and not the GUI. The manual suggests that runAssembly is faster and more efficient. In my previous jobs, I find this to be true. ie.

    shell> runAssembly -g , -cpu Num 4 ./input #command used.

    Hardware specs:
    CPU: 4 processors 2.66ghz ea
    RAM: 16gb


    The 454newblerprogress.txt file shows that it is currently “detangling alignemnts”. This is great but the file has not updated for more than 24hrs!

    The job is running for 6 days, a deadline is looming...
    Should I assume it the newbler stalled, died or just gave up?


    Thanks.

  • #2
    Long detangling points to a problem with the dataset. You could try the -large option which I think will solve it. It shortcuts some steps during detangling (and alignment).

    If coverage is low, ie less than say 15x, also increasing alignment stringency could help: -mi 96 or 98, -ml 60, 80 or even 100.

    Good luck!

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    • #3
      great...
      The assembly finished in 13 hours:
      start: Sat Mar 27 19:21:59
      stop: Sun Mar 28 08:25:07

      What is the advantage of increasing the ml length or mi length with low coverage reads?
      I am interested in doing additional reading on the topic and Im sure others have had the similar issues if coverage is low.

      Also, I found that the N50 decreased by using large option and switching from -ml60/-mi90 parameters to default parameter (N50 = 775, N50=540).

      I assume that low quality reads are dropped by setting the overlapMinMatchIdentity to a higher value, which increases contig quality. But I am unclear on this topic.

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      • #4
        Increased mi and ml prevents the assembler 'looking for overlap' where there is not enough coverage to actually have overlap. I don't think it drops low quality reads any more than default parameters, though...

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