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Introduction

This document describes the output produced by the pooled screens analysis of the pipeline.

The directories listed below will be created in the results directory after the pipeline has finished. All paths are relative to the top-level results directory.

Pipeline overview

The pipeline is built using Nextflow and processes data using the following steps:

Preprocessing

FastQC

Output files
  • fastqc/
    • *_fastqc.html: FastQC report containing quality metrics.
    • *_fastqc.zip: Zip archive containing the FastQC report, tab-delimited data file and plot images.

FastQC gives general quality metrics about your sequenced reads. It provides information about the quality score distribution across your reads, per base sequence content (%A/T/G/C), adapter contamination and overrepresented sequences. For further reading and documentation see the FastQC help pages.

cutadapt

Output files
  • cutadapt/
    • *.log: log file of the command ran and the output
    • *.trim.fastq.gz: trimmed fastq files

cutadapt. Cutadapt finds and removes adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails and other types of unwanted sequence from your high-throughput sequencing reads. MAGeCK count normally automatically detects adapter sequences and trims, however if trimming lengths are different, cutadapt can be used, as mentioned here. For further reading and documentation see the cutadapt helper page.

Alignment

Output files
  • bowtie2/
    • *.log: log file of the command ran and the output
    • *.bam: bam file
    • *.bowtie2: index from bowtie2 from the provided fasta file

Counting

MAGeCK count

Output files
  • mageck/count
    • *_count.txt: read counts per sample per sgRNA and gene, tab separated
    • *_count_normalized.txt: normalized read counts, tab separated
    • *_count_summary.txt: tab separated summary of the quality controls of the count table
    • *_count_table.log: log information of the run

CNV correction

CRISPRcleanR normalization

Output files
  • CRISPRcleanR/normalization
    • *_norm_table.tsv: read counts normalized with crisprcleanr
    • *.RData: RData tables containing corrected counts, fold changes and normalized counts

Gene essentiality computation

MAGeCK mle

Output files
  • mageck/mle
    • *_gene_summary.txt: ranked table of the genes and their associated p-values
    • *_sgrna_summary.txt: sgRNA ranking results, tab separated file
    • *.log: log of the run

MAGeCK rra

Output files
  • mageck/rra
    • *_gene_summary.txt: ranked table of the genes and their associated p-values
    • *_count_sgrna_summary.txt: sgRNA ranking results, tab separated file containing means, p-values
    • *.report.Rmd: markdown report recapping essential genes
    • *_count_table.log: log of the run
    • *_scatterview.png: scatter view of the targeted genes in the library and their logFC
    • *_rank.png: rank view of the targeted genes in the library

MAGeCK is a computational tool to identify important genes from CRISPR-Cas9 screens.

BAGEL2

Output files
  • bagel2/fold_change
    • *.foldchange: foldchange between the reference and treatment contrast provided
  • bagel2/bayes_factor
    • *.bf: bayes factor per gene
  • bagel2/precision_recall
    • *.pr: precision recall per gene
  • bagel2/graphs
    • barplot*.png: barplot of the bayes factor distribution
    • PR*.png: precision recall plot (Recall vs FDR)

bagel2 is a computational tool to identify important essential genes for CRISPR-Cas9 screening experiments.

DrugZ

Output files
  • drugz
    • *.foldchange: foldchange between the reference and treatment contrast provided
  • drugz
    • *.txt: z-score and associated p-value per gene

drugZ is a computational tool to identify synergistic and suppressor drug-gene interactions in CRISPR screens.

Venn diagram

Output files
  • venndiagram
    • *_common_genes_bagel_mle.txt: common essential genes between BAGEL2 and MAGeCK MLE
    • *_venn_bagel2_mageckmle.png: Venn diagram common essential genes between BAGEL2 and MAGeCK MLE. An example is shown here below

Venn diagram

Gene essentiality functional analysis

MAGeCKFlute

  • FluteMLE/QC
    • *.txt : Quality control tables
    • *.png : Quality control plots
  • FluteMLE/Selection
    • *.txt: Positive selection and negative selection.
    • *.png: Rank and scatter view for positive and negative selection
  • FluteMLE/Enrichment
    • *.txt: Enrichment analysis for positive and negative selection genes.
    • *.png: Enrichment analysis plots for positive and negative selection genes.
  • FluteMLE/PathwayView
    • *.txt: Pathway view for top enriched pathways.
    • *.png: Pathway view for top enriched pathways.

HitSelection

  • HitSelection
    • *.png : -logP value vs gene rank plot to determine the rank thresholds
    • *.txt : Ranked -logP value and gene symbols table

MultiQC

Output files
  • multiqc/
    • multiqc_report.html: a standalone HTML file that can be viewed in your web browser.
    • multiqc_data/: directory containing parsed statistics from the different tools used in the pipeline.
    • multiqc_plots/: directory containing static images from the report in various formats.

MultiQC is a visualization tool that generates a single HTML report summarising all samples in your project. Most of the pipeline QC results are visualised in the report and further statistics are available in the report data directory.

Results generated by MultiQC collate pipeline QC from supported tools e.g. FastQC. The pipeline has special steps which also allow the software versions to be reported in the MultiQC output for future traceability. For more information about how to use MultiQC reports, see http://multiqc.info.

Pipeline information

Output files
  • pipeline_info/
    • Reports generated by Nextflow: execution_report.html, execution_timeline.html, execution_trace.txt and pipeline_dag.dot/pipeline_dag.svg.
    • Reports generated by the pipeline: pipeline_report.html, pipeline_report.txt and software_versions.yml. The pipeline_report* files will only be present if the --email / --email_on_fail parameter’s are used when running the pipeline.
    • Reformatted samplesheet files used as input to the pipeline: samplesheet.valid.csv.

Nextflow provides excellent functionality for generating various reports relevant to the running and execution of the pipeline. This will allow you to troubleshoot errors with the running of the pipeline, and also provide you with other information such as launch commands, run times and resource usage.
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