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Lazypipe

Lazypipe is a stand-alone pipeline for identifying viruses in host-associated or environmental samples. The main emphasis is on assembling, taxonomic binning and taxonomic profiling of bacterial/viral sequences.

License

Free to use and open source under MIT License.

Available

Lazypipe 3.1 is available in Puhti.

Usage

All components of Lazypipe pipeline are available in Puhti. The Lazypipe home page provides detailed instruction how to set up your own Lazypipe environment to Puhti, but this is not needed if you use the Lazypipe module that is activated with commands:

module load r-env
module load biokit
module load lazypipe

Now Lazypipe starts with commands:

cp /appl/soft/bio/lazypipe/3.1/lazypipe/config.yaml config.yaml
echo tmpdir: \"$(pwd)/tmpdir\" >> config.yaml
echo res: \"$(pwd)/tmpdir\" >> config.yaml
lazypipe.pl -h

Normally you need to use the lazypipe.pl command only for testing. For real analysis tasks lazypipe module includes sbatch-lazypipe command that you can use instead.

sbatch-lazypipe is a help tool that automatically generates a configuration file and a batch job file for a Lazypipe run and submits the job to batch job system of Puhti. The command uses the same command line options as the lazypipe.pl command. In addition sbatch-lazypipe asks user to define batch job resources (account, run time, memory, number of cores).

For example, to execute main analysis steps on a M15 sample data (Illumina PE from mink feces) run the following commands:

cd /scratch/my_project 
module load r-env
module load biokit 
module load lazypipe 

sbatch-lazypipe -1 /appl/soft/bio/lazypipe/3.1/lazypipe/data/samples/M15small_R*.fastq -S M15 -p main --flt Neovison_vison --anns vi.nt -vnorm

When the sbatch-lazypipe is executed, it interactively asks information that is needed to construct a batch job. This includes following items (default values in brackets will be used if no new value is defined):

  • accounting project
  • maximum duration of the job (default 24 hours)
  • memory reservation (default 32G)
  • number of computing cores to use (default 8)
  • email notifications

After that your Lazypipe task is submitted to the batch job system for execution.

Additional commands

Listing reference databases available for Lazypipe module: 

lazypipe.pl --databases

Listing background filters available for Lazypipe module: 

lazypipe.pl --filters

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