NanoPlot 1.12.0

Plotting suite for Oxford Nanopore sequencing data and alignments

Plotting tool for long read sequencing data and alignments.

NanoPlot is also available as a web service.

Example plot

The example plot above shows a bivariate plot comparing log transformed read length with average basecall Phred quality score. More examples can be found in the gallery on my blog ‘Gigabase Or Gigabyte’.

In addition to various plots also a NanoStats file is created summarizing key features of the dataset.

This script performs data extraction from Oxford Nanopore sequencing data in the following formats:

- fastq files

(can be bgzip, bzip2 or gzip compressed)

- fastq files generated by albacore or MinKNOW containing additional information

(can be bgzip, bzip2 or gzip compressed)

- sorted bam files

- sequencing_summary.txt output table generated by albacore

(can be gzip, bz2, zip and xz compressed) - fasta files (can be bgzip, bzip2 or gzip compressed)

Multiple files of the same type can be offered simultaneously

INSTALLATION

pip install NanoPlot

Upgrade to a newer version using:

pip install NanoPlot --upgrade

or

conda install -c bioconda nanoplot

The script is written for python3.

OUTPUT

NanoPlot creates: - a statistical summary - a number of plots - a html summary file

USAGE

NanoPlot [-h] [-v] [-t THREADS] [--verbose] [--store] [--raw]
                [-o OUTDIR] [-p PREFIX] [--maxlength N] [--minlength N]
                [--drop_outliers] [--downsample N] [--loglength]
                [--percentqual] [--alength] [--minqual N]
                [--readtype {1D,2D,1D2}] [--barcoded] [-c COLOR]
                [-f {eps,jpeg,jpg,pdf,pgf,png,ps,raw,rgba,svg,svgz,tif,tiff}]
                [--plots [{kde,hex,dot,pauvre} [{kde,hex,dot,pauvre} ...]]]
                [--listcolors] [--no-N50] [--N50] [--title TITLE]
                (--fastq file [file ...] | --fastq_rich file [file ...] | --fastq_minimal file [file ...] | --summary file [file ...] | --bam file [file ...] | --cram file [file ...] | --pickle pickle)


General options:
  -h, --help            show the help and exit
  -v, --version         Print version and exit.
  -t, --threads THREADS Set the allowed number of threads to be used by the script
  --verbose             Write log messages also to terminal.
  --store               Store the extracted data in a pickle file for future plotting.
  --raw                 Store the extracted data in tab separated file.
  -o, --outdir OUTDIR   Specify directory in which output has to be created.
  -p, --prefix PREFIX   Specify an optional prefix to be used for the output files.

Options for filtering or transforming input prior to plotting:
  --maxlength N         Drop reads longer than length specified.
  --minlength N         Drop reads shorter than length specified.
  --drop_outliers       Drop outlier reads with extreme long length.
  --downsample N        Reduce dataset to N reads by random sampling.
  --loglength           Logarithmic scaling of lengths in plots.
  --percentqual         Use qualities as theoretical percent identities.
  --alength             Use aligned read lengths rather than sequenced length (bam mode)
  --minqual N           Drop reads with an average quality lower than specified.
  --readtype            Which read type to extract information about from a summary file.
                        One of 1D (default), 2D, 1D2
  --barcoded            Use if you want to split the summary file by barcode

Options for customizing the plots created:
  -c, --color COLOR     Specify a color for the plots, must be a valid matplotlib color
  -f, --format          Specify the output format of the plots.
                        One of png [default], eps,jpeg,jpg,pdf,pgf,ps,raw,rgba,svg,svgz,tif,tiff
  --plots               Specify which bivariate plots have to be made.
                        One or more of 'dot' (default), 'kde' (default), 'hex' and 'pauvre'
  --listcolors          List the colors which are available for plotting and exit.
  --no-N50              Hide the N50 mark in the read length histogram
  --N50                 Show the N50 mark in the read length histogram
  --title TITLE         Add a title to all plots, requires quoting if using spaces

Input data sources, one of these is required.:
  --fastq file [file ...]
                        Data is in one or more default fastq file(s).
  --fasta file [file ...]
                        Data is in one or more default fasta file(s).
  --fastq_rich file [file ...]
                        Data is in one or more fastq file(s) generated by albacore or MinKNOW with
                        additional information concerning channel and time.
  --fastq_minimal file [file ...]
                        Data is in one or more fastq file(s) generated by albacore or MinKNOW with
                        additional information concerning channel and time. Minimal data is extracted
                        swiftly without elaborate checks.
  --summary file [file ...]
                        Data is in one or more summary file(s) generated by albacore.
  --bam file [file ...]
                        Data is in one or more sorted bam file(s).
  --cram file [file ...]
                        Data is in one or more sorted cram file(s).
  --pickle pickle       Data is a pickle file stored earlier.

EXAMPLE USAGE

Nanoplot --summary sequencing_summary.txt --loglength -o summary-plots-log-transformed
NanoPlot -t 2 --fastq reads1.fastq.gz reads2.fastq.gz --maxlength 40000 --plots hex dot
NanoPlot -t 12 --color yellow --bam alignment1.bam alignment2.bam alignment3.bam --downsample 10000 -o bamplots_downsampled

This script now also provides read length vs mean quality plots in the ‘pauvre’-style from [@conchoecia](https://github.com/conchoecia).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I welcome all suggestions, bug reports, feature requests and contributions. Please leave an issue or open a pull request. I will usually respond within a day, or rarely within a few days.

PLOTS GENERATED

Plot	Fastq	Fastq _ric h	Fastq _min imal	Bam	Summa ry	Optio ns	Style
Histo gram of read lengt h	x	x	x	x	x	N50
Histo gram of (log trans forme d) read lengt h	x	x	x	x	x	N50
Bivar iate plot of lengt h again st base call quali ty	x	x		x	x	log trans forma tion	dot, hex, kde, pauvr e
Heatm ap of reads per chann el		x			x
Cumul ative yield plot		x	x		x
Violi n plot of read lengt h over time		x	x		x
Violi n plot of base call quali ty over time		x			x
Bivar iate plot of align ed read lengt h again st seque nced read lengt h				x			dot, hex, kde
Bivar iate plot of perce nt refer ence ident ity again st read lengt h				x		log trans forma tion	dot, hex, kde
Bivar iate plot of perce nt refer ence ident ity again st base call quali ty				x			dot, hex, kde
Bivar iate plot of mappi ng quali ty again st read lengt h				x		log trans forma tion	dot, hex, kde
Bivar iate plot of mappi ng quali ty again st basec all quali ty				x			dot, hex, kde

COMPANION SCRIPTS

• NanoComp: comparing multiple runs

• NanoStat: statistic summary report of reads or alignments

• NanoFilt: filtering and trimming of reads

• NanoLyse: removing contaminant reads (e.g. lambda control DNA) from fastq

CITATION

If you use this tool, please consider citing our publication.