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  • condomitti
    Member
    • Sep 2013
    • 33

    #1

    pacBioToCA caFailure (diff. from similar threads)

    Hi guys,


    I'm trying to assemble PacBio reads with Illumina short reads, by using Celera Assembler but I'm getting an error on the 1-overlap step.
    That must be some misconfiguration issue (of the .spec file) once it did finish sccessful when I tried to assemble pacbio reads only.

    What I did is:

    1) convert my illumina reads:

    fastqToCA -libraryname illumina -technology illumina -type sanger -innie -insertsize 300 50 -mates pe1.fq,pe2.fq > illumina.frg

    2) then call pacBioToCA to convert pacbio reads:

    nice pacBioToCA -length 500 -shortReads -genomeSize 2500000000 -partitions 200 -l snake -s pacbio.spec -fastq /work/snake/data/PacBio/SN051_filtered_subreads.fastq /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922/illumina.frg > run.out 2>&1





    It's a 10 million pacbio reads of about 1.5kbp each and 20 million illumina short reads of 99bp.



    After some hours of execution I'm getting this error:

    Code:
    runCA failed.
      
    ----------------------------------------
    Stack trace:
      
    at /usr/local/src/celera/runCA line 1501
           main::caFailure('ERROR:  Overlap job /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/2...', undef) called at /usr/local/src/celera/runCA line 3757
           main::checkOverlapper('normal') called at /usr/local/src/celera/runCA line 3808
           main::checkOverlap('normal') called at /usr/local/src/celera/runCA line 6310
    
    
    Failure message:
     
    ERROR:  Overlap job /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922/tempsnake/./1-overlapper/001/000031 FAILED.
    ERROR:  Overlap job /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922/tempsnake/./1-overlapper/001/000032 FAILED.
    ERROR:  Overlap job /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922/tempsnake/./1-overlapper/001/000033 FAILED.
    ERROR:  Overlap job /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922/tempsnake/./1-overlapper/001/000034 FAILED.
    ERROR:  Overlap job /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922/tempsnake/./1-overlapper/001/000035 FAILED.
    ...
    ...
    a lot more...
    ERROR:  Overlap job /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922/tempsnake/./1-overlapper/001/000784 FAILED.
    
    
    94 overlapper jobs failed
    log file ends with:

    Code:
    Failed to execute /usr/local/src/celera/runCA -s /work/snake/CeleraAssembler/20140922//tempsnake/snake.spec -p asm -d . ovlMerThreshold=338 ovlHashLibrary=2 ovlRefLibrary=1-1 ovlCheckLibra     ry=1 obtHashLibrary=1-1 obtRefLibrary=1-1 obtCheckLibrary=0 sgePropagateHold="pBcR_asm" stopAfter=overlapper



    This is the .spec file I'm using:


    Code:
    stopAfter=overlapper
    
    # original asm settings
    utgErrorRate = 0.25
    utgErrorLimit = 4.5
    
    cnsErrorRate = 0.25
    cgwErrorRate = 0.25
    ovlErrorRate = 0.25
    
    merSize=14
    
    merylMemory = 300000
    merylThreads = 30
    
    ovlStoreMemory = 500000
    
    # grid info
    useGrid = 0
    scriptOnGrid = 0
    frgCorrOnGrid = 0
    ovlCorrOnGrid = 0
    
    sge = -V -A assembly
    sgeScript = -pe threads 30
    sgeConsensus = -pe threads 30
    sgeOverlap = -pe threads 30
    sgeFragmentCorrection = -pe threads 30
    sgeOverlapCorrection = -pe threads 30
    
    #ovlMemory=8GB --hashload 0.7
    ovlHashBits = 25
    ovlThreads = 30
    ovlHashBlockLength = 20000000
    ovlRefBlockSize =  50000000
    
    # for mer overlapper
    merCompression = 1
    merOverlapperSeedBatchSize = 300000
    merOverlapperExtendBatchSize = 250000
    
    frgCorrThreads = 30
    frgCorrBatchSize = 100000
    
    ovlCorrBatchSize = 100000
    
    # non-Grid settings, if you set useGrid to 0 above these will be used
    merylMemory = 500000
    merylThreads = 30
    
    ovlStoreMemory = 500000
    
    ovlConcurrency = 30
    
    cnsConcurrency = 30
    
    merOverlapperThreads = 30
    merOverlapperSeedConcurrency = 30
    merOverlapperExtendConcurrency = 30
    
    frgCorrConcurrency = 30
    ovlCorrConcurrency = 30
    cnsConcurrency = 30

    I've searched this forum for similar threads but couldn't find any.
    Could someone please give me some help on how to get through this issue?



    Thanks a lot.

    Cheers,
    Condomitti.
  • condomitti
    Member
    • Sep 2013
    • 33

    #2
    Hi mates,

    After some trials I could reach a set of configuration in the spec file that led to the successful end of assembly :-)

    For those who might be interested, below is the spec file I used:

    PacBio reads: 10 million of ~ 1.5kbp length each.
    Short reads: 40 million of ~99bp each.

    .spec file:
    Code:
    stopAfter=overlapper
    
    # original asm settings
    utgErrorRate = 0.25
    utgErrorLimit = 4.5
    
    cnsErrorRate = 0.25
    cgwErrorRate = 0.25
    ovlErrorRate = 0.25
    
    merSize=14
    
    merylMemory = 50000
    merylThreads = 30
    
    ovlStoreMemory = 50000
    
    # grid info
    useGrid = 0
    scriptOnGrid = 0
    frgCorrOnGrid = 0
    ovlCorrOnGrid = 0
    
    sge = -V -A assembly
    sgeScript = -pe threads 30
    sgeConsensus = -pe threads 30
    sgeOverlap = -pe threads 30
    sgeFragmentCorrection = -pe threads 30
    sgeOverlapCorrection = -pe threads 30
    
    #ovlMemory=8GB --hashload 0.7
    ovlHashBits = 26
    ovlThreads = 30
    ovlHashBlockLength = 100000000
    ovlRefBlockSize =  5000000
    
    # for mer overlapper
    merCompression = 1
    merOverlapperSeedBatchSize = 200000
    merOverlapperExtendBatchSize = 750000
    
    frgCorrThreads = 30
    frgCorrBatchSize = 200000
    
    ovlCorrBatchSize = 500000
    
    # non-Grid settings, if you set useGrid to 0 above these will be used
    merylMemory = 50000
    merylThreads = 30
    
    ovlConcurrency = 30
    
    cnsConcurrency = 30
    
    merOverlapperThreads = 30
    merOverlapperSeedConcurrency = 30
    merOverlapperExtendConcurrency = 30
    
    frgCorrConcurrency = 30
    ovlCorrConcurrency = 30
    cnsConcurrency = 30


    Cheers,
    Condomitti.

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