fetchngs
Pipeline to fetch metadata and raw FastQ files from public databases
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Pipeline to fetch metadata and raw FastQ files from public databases
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: nf-core
- License: mit
- Language: Nextflow
- Default Branch: master
- Homepage: https://nf-co.re/fetchngs
- Size: 4.42 MB
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- Stars: 177
- Watchers: 116
- Forks: 81
- Open Issues: 43
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README.md
Introduction
nf-core/fetchngs is a bioinformatics pipeline to fetch metadata and raw FastQ files from both public databases. At present, the pipeline supports SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO ids (see usage docs).

Usage
[!NOTE] If you are new to Nextflow and nf-core, please refer to this page on how to set-up Nextflow. Make sure to test your setup with
-profile testbefore running the workflow on actual data.
First, prepare a samplesheet with your input data that looks as follows:
ids.csv:
csv
SRR9984183
SRR13191702
ERR1160846
ERR1109373
DRR028935
DRR026872
Each line represents a database id. Please see next section for supported ids.
Now, you can run the pipeline using:
bash
nextflow run nf-core/fetchngs \
-profile <docker/singularity/.../institute> \
--input ids.csv \
--outdir <OUTDIR>
[!WARNING] Please provide pipeline parameters via the CLI or Nextflow
-params-fileoption. Custom config files including those provided by the-cNextflow option can be used to provide any configuration except for parameters; see docs.
For more details and further functionality, please refer to the usage documentation and the parameter documentation.
Supported ids
Via a single file of ids, provided one-per-line (see example input file) the pipeline performs the following steps:
SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO ids
- Resolve database ids back to appropriate experiment-level ids and to be compatible with the ENA API
- Fetch extensive id metadata via ENA API
- Download FastQ files:
- If direct download links are available from the ENA API:
- Fetch in parallel via
wgetand performmd5sumcheck (--download_method ftp; default). - Fetch in parallel via
aspera-cliand performmd5sumcheck. Use--download_method asperato force this behaviour.
- Fetch in parallel via
- Otherwise use
sra-toolsto download.srafiles and convert them to FastQ. Use--download_method sratoolsto force this behaviour.
- If direct download links are available from the ENA API:
- Collate id metadata and paths to FastQ files in a single samplesheet
Pipeline output
The columns in the output samplesheet can be tailored to be accepted out-of-the-box by selected nf-core pipelines (see usage docs), these currently include:
- nf-core/rnaseq
- nf-core/atacseq
- Ilumina processing mode of nf-core/viralrecon
- nf-core/taxprofiler
To see the the results of a test run with a full size dataset refer to the results tab on the nf-core website pipeline page. For more details about the output files and reports, please refer to the output documentation.
Credits
nf-core/fetchngs was originally written by Harshil Patel (@drpatelh) from Seqera Labs, Spain and Jose Espinosa-Carrasco (@JoseEspinosa) from The Comparative Bioinformatics Group at The Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain. Support for download of sequencing reads without FTP links via sra-tools was added by Moritz E. Beber (@Midnighter) from Unseen Bio ApS, Denmark.
Contributions and Support
If you would like to contribute to this pipeline, please see the contributing guidelines.
For further information or help, don't hesitate to get in touch on the Slack #fetchngs channel (you can join with this invite).
Citations
If you use nf-core/fetchngs for your analysis, please cite it using the following doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5070524
An extensive list of references for the tools used by the pipeline can be found in the CITATIONS.md file.
You can cite the nf-core publication as follows:
The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines.
Philip Ewels, Alexander Peltzer, Sven Fillinger, Harshil Patel, Johannes Alneberg, Andreas Wilm, Maxime Ulysse Garcia, Paolo Di Tommaso & Sven Nahnsen.
Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Feb 13. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0439-x.
Owner
- Name: nf-core
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- Website: http://nf-co.re
- Twitter: nf_core
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- Profile: https://github.com/nf-core
A community effort to collect a curated set of analysis pipelines built using Nextflow.
Citation (CITATIONS.md)
# nf-core/fetchngs: Citations ## [nf-core](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32055031/) > Ewels PA, Peltzer A, Fillinger S, Patel H, Alneberg J, Wilm A, Garcia MU, Di Tommaso P, Nahnsen S. The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines. Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Mar;38(3):276-278. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0439-x. PubMed PMID: 32055031. ## [Nextflow](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28398311/) > Di Tommaso P, Chatzou M, Floden EW, Barja PP, Palumbo E, Notredame C. Nextflow enables reproducible computational workflows. Nat Biotechnol. 2017 Apr 11;35(4):316-319. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3820. PubMed PMID: 28398311. ## Pipeline tools - [Aspera CLI](https://github.com/IBM/aspera-cli) - [Python](http://www.python.org) - [Requests](https://docs.python-requests.org/) - [sra-tools](https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools) ## Pipeline resources - [ENA](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33175160/) > Harrison PW, Ahamed A, Aslam R, Alako BTF, Burgin J, Buso N, Courtot M, Fan J, Gupta D, Haseeb M, Holt S, Ibrahim T, Ivanov E, Jayathilaka S, Kadhirvelu VB, Kumar M, Lopez R, Kay S, Leinonen R, Liu X, O'Cathail C, Pakseresht A, Park Y, Pesant S, Rahman N, Rajan J, Sokolov A, Vijayaraja S, Waheed Z, Zyoud A, Burdett T, Cochrane G. The European Nucleotide Archive in 2020. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D82-D85. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1028. PubMed PMID: 33175160; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7778925. - [SRA](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21062823/) > Leinonen R, Sugawara H, Shumway M, International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. The sequence read archive. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan;39 (Database issue):D19-21. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq1019. Epub 2010 Nov 9. PubMed PMID: 21062823; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3013647. - [DDBJ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33156332/) > Fukuda A, Kodama Y, Mashima J, Fujisawa T, Ogasawara O. DDBJ update: streamlining submission and access of human data. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D71-D75. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa982. PubMed PMID: 33156332; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7779041. - [GEO](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23193258/) > Barrett T, Wilhite SE, Ledoux P, Evangelista C, Kim IF, Tomashevsky M, Marshall KA, Phillippy KH, Sherman PM, Holko M, Yefanov A, Lee H, Zhang N, Robertson CL, Serova N, Davis S, Soboleva A. NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets--update. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue):D991-5. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1193. Epub 2012 Nov 27. PubMed PMID: 23193258; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3531084. ## Software packaging/containerisation/testing tools - [Anaconda](https://anaconda.com) > Anaconda Software Distribution. Computer software. Vers. 2-2.4.0. Anaconda, Nov. 2016. Web. - [Bioconda](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29967506/) > Grüning B, Dale R, Sjödin A, Chapman BA, Rowe J, Tomkins-Tinch CH, Valieris R, Köster J; Bioconda Team. Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences. Nat Methods. 2018 Jul;15(7):475-476. doi: 10.1038/s41592-018-0046-7. PubMed PMID: 29967506. - [BioContainers](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28379341/) > da Veiga Leprevost F, Grüning B, Aflitos SA, Röst HL, Uszkoreit J, Barsnes H, Vaudel M, Moreno P, Gatto L, Weber J, Bai M, Jimenez RC, Sachsenberg T, Pfeuffer J, Alvarez RV, Griss J, Nesvizhskii AI, Perez-Riverol Y. BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization. Bioinformatics. 2017 Aug 15;33(16):2580-2582. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx192. PubMed PMID: 28379341; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5870671. - [Docker](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2600239.2600241) > Merkel, D. (2014). Docker: lightweight linux containers for consistent development and deployment. Linux Journal, 2014(239), 2. doi: 10.5555/2600239.2600241. - [nf-test](https://code.askimed.com/nf-test) - [Singularity](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28494014/) > Kurtzer GM, Sochat V, Bauer MW. Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute. PLoS One. 2017 May 11;12(5):e0177459. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177459. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28494014; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5426675.
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