URAdime 0.1.4

Universal Read Analysis of DIMErs

URAdime

URAdime (Universal Read Analysis of DIMErs) is a Python package for analyzing primer sequences in sequencing data to identify dimers and chimeras.

Installation

pip install uradime

Usage

URAdime can be used both as a command-line tool and as a Python package.

Command Line Interface

# Basic usage
uradime -b input.bam -p primers.tsv -o results/my_analysis

# Full options
uradime \
    -b input.bam \                    # Input BAM file
    -p primers.tsv \                  # Primer file (tab-separated)
    -o results/my_analysis \          # Output prefix
    -t 8 \                            # Number of threads
    -m 1000 \                         # Maximum reads to process (0 for all)
    -c 100 \                          # Chunk size for parallel processing
    -u \                              # Process only unaligned reads
    --max-distance 2 \                # Maximum Levenshtein distance for matching
    --window-size 20 \                # Allowed padding on the 5' ends of the reads, sometime needs to be very big due to universal tails etc. setting this parameter too large can cause unexpected results
    --ignore-amplicon-size \          # Usefull if short read sequecing like Illumina where the paired read length is not the size of the actual amplicon
    --check-termini \                 # Turn off check for partial matches at read termini
    --terminus-length 10 \            #Length of terminus to check for partial matches
    --downsample 5.0 \                # Percentage of reads to randomly sample from the BAM file (0.1-100.0)
    -v                                # Verbose output

Python Package

from uradime import bam_to_fasta_parallel, create_analysis_summary, load_primers

# Load and analyze BAM file
result_df = bam_to_fasta_parallel(
    bam_path="your_file.bam",
    primer_file="primers.tsv",
    num_threads=4
)

# Load primers for analysis
primers_df, _ = load_primers("primers.tsv")

# Create analysis summary
summary_df, matched_pairs, mismatched_pairs = create_analysis_summary(result_df, primers_df)

Input Files

Primer File Format (TSV)

The primer file should be tab-separated with the following columns:

• Name: Primer pair name
• Forward: Forward primer sequence
• Reverse: Reverse primer sequence
• Size: Expected amplicon size

Example:

Name    Forward             Reverse             Size
Pair1   ATCGATCGATCG       TAGCTAGCTAGC       100
Pair2   GCTAGCTAGCTA       CGATTCGATCGA       150

Output Files

The tool generates several CSV files with the analysis results:

• *_summary.csv: Overall analysis summary
• *_matched_pairs.csv: Reads with matching primer pairs
• *_mismatched_pairs.csv: Reads with mismatched primer pairs
• *_wrong_size_pairs.csv: Reads with correct primer pairs but wrong size

Requirements

• Python ≥3.7
• pysam
• pandas
• biopython
• python-Levenshtein
• tqdm
• numpy

License

This project is licensed under GNU GPL.