pankmer 0.14.0

Generate a PanGenome given a set of genomes

Primary contact: Anthony Aylward, [e-mail]

PanKmer

k-mer based and reference-free pangenome analysis. See the quickstart below, or read the documentation.

License

PanKmer is licensed under a Salk Institute BSD license

Installation

In a conda environment

First create an environment that includes all dependencies:

conda create -c conda-forge -c bioconda -n pankmer rust python \
  biopython seaborn urllib3 python-newick pyfaidx gff2bed upsetplot \
  pybedtools cython more-itertools

Then install PanKmer with pip:

conda activate pankmer
pip install pankmer

With pip

PanKmer is built with Rust, so you will need to install it if you have not already done so. Then you can install PanKmer with pip:

pip install pankmer

Check installation

Check that the installation was successful by running:

pankmer --version

Tutorial

Download example dataset

The download-example subcommand will download a small example dataset of Chr19 sequences from S. polyrhiza.

pankmer download-example -d .

After running this command the directory PanKmer_example_Sp_Chr19/ will be present in the working directory. It contains FASTA files representing Chr19 from three genomes, and GFF files giving their gene annotations.

ls PanKmer_example_Sp_Chr19/*

PanKmer_example_Sp_Chr19/README.md

PanKmer_example_Sp_Chr19/Sp_Chr19_features:
Sp9509_oxford_v3_Chr19.gff3.gz Sp9512_a02_genes_Chr19.gff3.gz

PanKmer_example_Sp_Chr19/Sp_Chr19_genomes:
Sp7498_HiC_Chr19.fasta.gz Sp9509_oxford_v3_Chr19.fasta.gz Sp9512_a02_genome_Chr19.fasta.gz

To get started, navigate to the downloaded directory.

cd PanKmer_example_Sp_Chr19/

Build a k-mer index

The k-mer index is a table tracking presence or absence of k-mers in the set of input genomes. To build an index, use the index subcommand and provide a directory containing the input genomes.

pankmer index -g Sp_Chr19_genomes/ -o Sp_Chr19_index.tar

After completion, the index will be present as a tar file Sp_Chr19_index.tar.

tar -tvf Sp_Chr19_index.tar

Sp_Chr19_index/
Sp_Chr19_index/kmers.b.gz
Sp_Chr19_index/metadata.json
Sp_Chr19_index/scores.b.gz

Note

The input genomes argument proided with the -g flag can be a directory, a tar archive, or a space-separated list of FASTA files.

If the output argument provided with the -o flag ends with .tar, then the index will be written as a tar archive. Otherwise it will be written as a directory.

Create an adjacency matrix

A useful application of the k-mer index is to generate an adjacency matrix. This is a table of k-mer similarity values for each pair of genomes in the index. We can generate one using the adj-matrix subcommand, which will produce a CSV or TSV file containing the matrix.

pankmer adj-matrix -i Sp_Chr19_index.tar -o Sp_Chr19_adj_matrix.csv
pankmer adj-matrix -i Sp_Chr19_index.tar -o Sp_Chr19_adj_matrix.tsv

Note

The input index argument proided with the -i flag can be tar archive or a directory.

Plot a clustered heatmap

To visualize the adjacency matrix, we can plot a clustered heatmap of the adjacency values. In this case we use the Jaccard similarity metric for pairwise comparisons between genomes:

pankmer clustermap -i Sp_Chr19_adj_matrix.csv \
  -o Sp_Chr19_adj_matrix.svg \
  --metric jaccard \
  --width 6.5 \
  --height 6.5

Generate a gene variability heatmap

Generate a heatmap showing variability of genes across genomes. The following command uses the --n-features option to limit analysis to the first two genes from each input GFF3 file. The resulting image shows the level of variability observed across genes from each genome.

pankmer reg_heatmap -i Sp_Chr19_index/ \
  -r Sp_Chr19_genomes/Sp9509_oxford_v3_Chr19.fasta.gz Sp_Chr19_genomes/Sp9512_a02_genome_Chr19.fasta.gz \
  -f Sp_Chr19_features/Sp9509_oxford_v3_Chr19.gff3.gz Sp_Chr19_features/Sp9512_a02_genes_Chr19.gff3.gz \
  -o Sp_Chr19_gene_var.png \
  --n-features 2 \
  --height 3

Pangenome datasets

The pankmer download-example subcommand can be used to download genomes from several publicly available pangenome datasets. See the help text:

pankmer download-example --help

usage: pankmer download-example [-h] [-d <dir/>] [-s {Spolyrhiza,Slycopersicum,Zmays,Hsapiens,Bsubtilis,Athaliana}] [-n <int>]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d <dir/>, --dir <dir/>
                        destination directory for example data
  -s {Spolyrhiza,Slycopersicum,Zmays,Hsapiens,Bsubtilis,Athaliana}, --species {Spolyrhiza,Slycopersicum,Zmays,Hsapiens,Bsubtilis,Athaliana}
                        download publicly available genomes. Species: max_samples. Spolyrhiza: 3, Slycopersicum: 46, Zmays: 54, Hsapiens: 94,    Bsubtilis: 164, Athaliana: 1135
  -n <int>, --n-samples <int>
                        number of samples to download, must be less than species max [1]

The -s/--species option selects the species, and the -n/--n-samples option selects the number of samples to download. The maximum number of samples for each species is:

Species	Max samples
S. polyrhiza	3
S. lycopersicum	46
Z. mays	54
H. sapiens	94
B. subtilis	164
A. thaliana	1135

See below a description of each pangenome dataset

S. lycopersicum

46 Solanum lycopersicum genomes from the SolOmics database. See also: Nature article .

Z. mays

54 Zea mays genomes from the downloads page of MaizeGDB.

H. sapiens

94 Homo sapiens haplotypes from Year 1 of the Human Pangenome Project. Download details found at the HPP github repository. Nature article

B. subtilis

164 B. subtilis genomes from NCBI.

A. thaliana

1135 A. thaliana pseudo-genomes from the data center of 1001 Genomes

S. polyrhiza

A collection of 3 Spirodela polyrhiza clones Sp7498, Sp9509, Sp9512, from the following sources: Sp7498 and Sp9509 sequences were sourced from the following references found at http://spirodelagenome.org:

Sp9509_oxford_v3
NCBI: GCA_900492545.1
CoGe: id51364
This genome was generated with Oxford Nanopore and polished with Illumina, scaffolded against the previous Illumina-based genome Sp9509v3 and validated with BioNano optical maps and multi-color FISH (mcFISH).

Hoang PNT, Michael TP, Gilbert S, Chu P, Motley TS, Appenroth KJ, Schubert I, Lam E. Generating a high-confidence reference genome map of the Greater Duckweed by integration of cytogenomic, optical mapping and Oxford Nanopore technologies. Plant J. 2018 Jul 28.

Sp7498_HiC
CoGe: 55877
This assembly was generated using Oxford Nanopore long reads and Illumina-based HiC scaffolding.

Harkess A, McGlaughlin F, Bilkey N, Elliott K, Emenecker R, Mattoon E, Miller K, Vierstra R, Meyers BC, Michael TP. High contiguity Spirodela polyrhiza genomes reveal conserved chromosomal structure. Submitted.

Sp9512 sequence was sourced from research data for the following in-progress publication:

Pasaribu B, Acosta K, Aylward A, Abramson BW, Colt K, Hartwick NT, Liang Y, Shanklin J, Michael TP, Lam E Genomics of turions from the Greater Duckweed reveal pathways for tissue dormancy and reemergence strategy of an aquatic plant.

Sp9512 can be downloaded from Michael lab AWS storage.