Define where the pipeline should find input data and save output data.

Path to comma-separated file containing information about the samples in the experiment.

required
type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.csv$

You will need to create a design file with information about the samples in your experiment before running the pipeline. Use this parameter to specify its location. It has to be a comma-separated file with 3 columns, and a header row. See usage docs.

Path to the output directory where the results will be saved.

type: string
default: ./results

Email address for completion summary.

type: string
pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5})$

Set this parameter to your e-mail address to get a summary e-mail with details of the run sent to you when the workflow exits. If set in your user config file (~/.nextflow/config) then you don't need to specify this on the command line for every run.

Specifies if TSS-bigwigs should be generated, additionally to the TSS-bed files

type: boolean

Adjust parameters and filtering criteria for read alignments.

Alignment tool to be used

type: string

Minimum number of aligned basepairs of a read to be kept

type: integer
default: 15

When using pre-built STAR indices do not re-extract and use splice junctions from the GTF file.

type: boolean

Sequencing center information to be added to read group of BAM files.

type: string

Percentage of minimum number of mapped reads for files to be considered for downstream analysis.

type: integer
default: 5

Reference genome related files and options required for the workflow.

Name of iGenomes reference.

type: string

If using a reference genome configured in the pipeline using iGenomes, use this parameter to give the ID for the reference. This is then used to build the full paths for all required reference genome files e.g. --genome GRCh38.

See the nf-core website docs for more details.

Path to FASTA genome file.

type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.fn?a(sta)?(\.gz)?$

This parameter is mandatory if --genome is not specified. If you don't have a bowtie or STAR index available this will be generated for you automatically. Combine with --save_reference to save indices index for future runs.

Directory / URL base for iGenomes references.

hidden
type: string
default: s3://ngi-igenomes/igenomes

Do not load the iGenomes reference config.

hidden
type: boolean

Do not load igenomes.config when running the pipeline. You may choose this option if you observe clashes between custom parameters and those supplied in igenomes.config.

Path to gtf file.

type: string

Path to star index directory.

type: string

Path to bowtie index directory.

type: string

Specify the platform used for sequencing.

type: string

Used by STAR to generate header in BAM file.

All generated reference files will be saved to the results folder if this flag is set.

type: boolean

Save reads, which couldn't be aligned.

type: boolean

Adjust trimming criteria and sequences.

Save trimmed reads

type: boolean

Set to cut the enzyme binding site at the 5' end

type: boolean
default: true

Select to cut the linker at the 3' end

type: boolean
default: true

Trim the first G at the 5' end, if available

type: boolean
default: true

Artifacts, generated in the sequencing process, are cut if this flag is not set to false.

type: boolean

Sequence of the ecoP15 site at the 5' end

type: string
default: CAGCAG

Sequence of the linker at the 3' end

type: string
default: TCGTATGCCGTCTTC

Path to 5' end artifacts

type: string
default: $projectDir/assets/artifacts_5end.fasta

Path to 3' end artifacts

type: string
default: $projectDir/assets/artifacts_3end.fasta

Control the ribosomal RNA removal through SortMeRNA.

Select to remove ribosoamal reads with SortMeRNA

type: boolean

Select to save the ribosomal-free reads

type: boolean

Path to SortMeRNA database file

type: string
default: $projectDir/assets/rrna-db-defaults.txt

The SortMeRNA database file should be a .txt file with a URL/path to a ribisomal fasta file.

Define parameters for paraclu clustering.

Minimum cluster size

type: integer
default: 30

Minimum tags per million a cluster has to have

type: number
default: 0.2

Skip various steps within the workflow.

Skip all QC processes.

type: boolean

Skip FastQC run on input reads.

type: boolean

Skip all trimming steps.

type: boolean

Skip FastQC run on trimmed reads.

type: boolean

Skip alignment step.

type: boolean

Skip samtools stats QC step of aligned reads

type: boolean

Skip steps generating CTSS files including clustering, bed/bigwig and count table output generation.

type: boolean

Skip generation of tag clusters from CTSS.

type: boolean

Skip running RSeQC's read distribution QC step on the clustered CTSS.

type: boolean

Skip MultiQC step

type: boolean

Less common options for the pipeline, typically set in a config file.

Display help text.

hidden
type: boolean

Email address for completion summary, only when pipeline fails.

hidden
type: string
pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5})$

An email address to send a summary email to when the pipeline is completed - ONLY sent if the pipeline does not exit successfully.

Send plain-text email instead of HTML.

hidden
type: boolean

File size limit when attaching MultiQC reports to summary emails.

hidden
type: string
default: 25.MB
pattern: ^\d+(\.\d+)?\.?\s*(K|M|G|T)?B$

Do not use coloured log outputs.

hidden
type: boolean

Custom config file to supply to MultiQC.

hidden
type: string

MultiQC report title. Printed as page header, used for filename if not otherwise specified.

type: string

Directory to keep pipeline Nextflow logs and reports.

hidden
type: string
default: ${params.outdir}/pipeline_info

Boolean whether to validate parameters against the schema at runtime

hidden
type: boolean
default: true

Show all params when using --help

hidden
type: boolean

By default, parameters set as hidden in the schema are not shown on the command line when a user runs with --help. Specifying this option will tell the pipeline to show all parameters.

Run this workflow with Conda. You can also use '-profile conda' instead of providing this parameter.

hidden
type: boolean

Set the top limit for requested resources for any single job.

Maximum number of CPUs that can be requested for any single job.

hidden
type: integer
default: 16

Use to set an upper-limit for the CPU requirement for each process. Should be an integer e.g. --max_cpus 1

Maximum amount of memory that can be requested for any single job.

hidden
type: string
default: 128.GB
pattern: ^\d+(\.\d+)?\.?\s*(K|M|G|T)?B$

Use to set an upper-limit for the memory requirement for each process. Should be a string in the format integer-unit e.g. --max_memory '8.GB'

Maximum amount of time that can be requested for any single job.

hidden
type: string
default: 240.h
pattern: ^(\d+\.?\s*(s|m|h|day)\s*)+$

Use to set an upper-limit for the time requirement for each process. Should be a string in the format integer-unit e.g. --max_time '2.h'

Parameters used to describe centralised config profiles. These should not be edited.

Git commit id for Institutional configs.

hidden
type: string
default: master

Base directory for Institutional configs.

hidden
type: string
default: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nf-core/configs/master

If you're running offline, Nextflow will not be able to fetch the institutional config files from the internet. If you don't need them, then this is not a problem. If you do need them, you should download the files from the repo and tell Nextflow where to find them with this parameter.

Institutional config name.

hidden
type: string

Institutional config description.

hidden
type: string

Institutional config contact information.

hidden
type: string

Institutional config URL link.

hidden
type: string