HTSeqCountCluster 1.3

A cli for running multiple pbs/qsub jobs with HTSeq's htseq-count script on a cluster.

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# htseq-count-cluster

A cli wrapper for running [htseq](https://github.com/simon-anders/htseq)'s `htseq-count` on a cluster.

View [documentation](https://tinyurl.com/yb7kz7zz).

## Install

`pip install HTSeqCountCluster`

## Features

- For use with large datasets (we've previously used a dataset of 120 different human samples)
- For use with SGE/SGI cluster systems
- Submits multiple jobs
- Command line interface/script
- Merges counts files into one counts table/csv file
- Uses `accepted_hits.bam` file output of `tophat`

### Examples

#### Run htseq-count-cluster

After generating bam output files from tophat, instead of using HTSeq's htseq count, you
can use our `htseq-count-cluster` script. This script is intended for use with
clusters that are using pbs (qsub) for job monitoring.

```bash
htseq-count-cluster -p path/to/bam-files/ -f samples.csv -g genes.gtf -o path/to/cluster-output/
```

| Argument | Description | Required |
|:--------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:--------:|
| `-p` | This is the path of your .bam files. Presently, this script looks for a folder that is the sample name and searches for an accepted_hits.bam file (tophat output). | Yes |
| `-i` | You should have a csv file list of your samples or folder names (no header). | Yes |
| `-g` | This should be the path to your genes.gtf file. | Yes |
| `-o` | This should be an existing directory for your output counts files. | Yes |
| `-e` |

This script uses logzero so there will be color coded logging information to your shell.

A common linux practice is to use `screen` to create a new shell and run a program
so that if it does produce output to the stdout/shell, the user can exit that particular
shell without the program ending and utilize another shell.

##### Help message output for `htseq-count-cluster`

```
usage: htseq-count-cluster [-h] -p INPATH -f INFILE -g GTF -o OUTPATH
[-e EMAIL]

This is a command line wrapper around htseq-count.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p INPATH, --inpath INPATH
Path of your samples/sample folders.
-f INFILE, --infile INFILE
Name or path to your input csv file.
-g GTF, --gtf GTF Name or path to your gtf/gff file.
-o OUTPATH, --outpath OUTPATH
Directory of your output counts file. The counts file
will be named.
-e EMAIL, --email EMAIL
Email address to send script completion to.

*Ensure that htseq-count is in your path.


```


#### Merge output counts files

In order to prep your data for `DESeq2`, `limma` or `edgeR`, it's best to have 1 merged
counts file instead of multiple files produced from the `htseq-count-cluster` script. We offer this
as a standalone script as it may be useful to keep those files separate.

```bash
merge-counts -d path/to/cluster-output/
```

##### Help message for `merge-counts`

```
usage: merge-counts [-h] -d DIRECTORY

Merge multiple counts tables into 1 counts .csv file.

Your output file will be named: merged_counts_table.csv

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
Path to folder of counts files.
```

## ToDo

- [ ] Monitor jobs.
- [ ] Enhance wrapper input for other use cases.
- [ ] Add example data.


## Maintainers

Shaurita Hutchins | [@sdhutchins](https://github.com/sdhutchins) | [✉](mailto:[e-mail])
Rob Gilmore | [@grabear](https://github.com/grabear) | [✉](mailto:[e-mail])


## Help

Please feel free to [open an issue](https://github.com/datasnakes/htseq-count-cluster/issues/new) if you have a question/feedback/problem
or [submit a pull request](https://github.com/datasnakes/htseq-count-cluster/compare) to add a feature/refactor/etc. to this project.