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help undestanding output #103

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RichardCorbett opened this issue Apr 1, 2020 · 13 comments
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help undestanding output #103

RichardCorbett opened this issue Apr 1, 2020 · 13 comments

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@RichardCorbett
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RichardCorbett commented Apr 1, 2020 •
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Hi dropseqpipers,

I have downsampled some single cell data to test for the quality of the results using the same number of reads per cell. I have given each of my 100 cells 10,000 reads in the fastq files.

After analysis I see that only have about ~3000 reads per cell that are used for the anlysis and I am trying to diagnose where the reads might have been filtered out. One possibility is that cutadapt is filtering reads for not having the correct structure, or perhaps too much adapter or similar.

Here is the cutadapt multiqc file:

Sample	r_processed	r_with_adapters	bp_processed	quality_trimmed	bp_written	percent_trimmed
sample1_R2	950971	584570	118871375	12147260	77382403	34.90240774955283
sample2_R2	1058522	655457	132315250	12524937	90626084	31.507453600397533
sample3_R2	929245	557125	116155625	8035848	74496049	35.865310870653055
sample4_R2	958210	563527	119776250	9272229	83291408	30.46083175921771

I'm not very familiar with the output of cutadapt. Does the above indicate that there are many reads that are being filtered out?
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Hoohm commented Apr 1, 2020

Hey @RichardCorbett
I would rather see the log file we create that is called clean_qc or even better, the yield plot if you got it.

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Thanks @Hoohm,

I don't seem to have either of those:

find . ./samples ./samples/sample1 ./samples/sample1/top_barcodes.csv ./samples/sample1/barcodes.csv ./samples/sample1/trimmed_repaired_R1.fastq.gz ./samples/sample1/trimmed_repaired_R2.fastq.gz ./samples/sample1/empty_barcode_mapping.pkl ./samples/sample1/barcode_ref.pkl ./samples/sample1/barcode_ext_ref.pkl ./samples/sample1/Log.final.out ./samples/sample1/Log.out ./samples/sample1/_STARtmp find: ./samples/sample1/_STARtmp': Permission denied
./samples/sample1/Log.progress.out
./samples/sample1/read
./samples/sample1/read/barcodes.tsv
./samples/sample1/read/genes.tsv
./samples/sample1/read/matrix.mtx
./samples/sample1/barcode_mapping_counts.pkl
./samples/sample1/SJ.out.tab
./samples/sample1/Unmapped.out.mate1.gz
./samples/sample1/final.bam
./samples/sample1/umi
./samples/sample1/umi/expression.long
./samples/sample1/umi/barcodes.tsv
./samples/sample1/umi/genes.tsv
./samples/sample1/umi/matrix.mtx
./logs
./logs/cutadapt
./logs/cutadapt/sample1_R2.qc.txt
./logs/cutadapt/sample1_R1.qc.txt
./logs/cutadapt/sample1.clean_qc.csv
./logs/fastqc
./logs/fastqc/sample1_R1_fastqc.html
./logs/fastqc/sample1_R1_fastqc.zip
./logs/fastqc/sample1_R2_fastqc.html
./logs/fastqc/sample1_R2_fastqc.zip
./logs/bbmap
./logs/bbmap/sample1_repair.txt
./logs/dropseq_tools
./logs/dropseq_tools/sample1_beadSubstitutionSummary.txt
./logs/dropseq_tools/sample1_beadSubstitutionReport.txt
./logs/dropseq_tools/sample1_synthesis_stats_summary.txt
./logs/dropseq_tools/sample1_hist_out_cell.txt
./logs/dropseq_tools/sample1_rna_metrics.txt
./reports
./reports/fastqc_barcodes_data
./reports/fastqc_barcodes_data/multiqc_sources.txt
./reports/fastqc_barcodes_data/multiqc_data.json
./reports/fastqc_barcodes_data/multiqc_general_stats.txt
./reports/fastqc_barcodes_data/multiqc_fastqc.txt
./reports/fastqc_barcodes_data/multiqc.log
./reports/fastqc_reads_data
./reports/fastqc_reads_data/multiqc_sources.txt
./reports/fastqc_reads_data/multiqc_data.json
./reports/fastqc_reads_data/multiqc_general_stats.txt
./reports/fastqc_reads_data/multiqc_fastqc.txt
./reports/fastqc_reads_data/multiqc.log
./reports/fastqc_barcodes.html
./reports/fastqc_reads.html
./reports/RNA_filtering_data
./reports/RNA_filtering_data/multiqc_sources.txt
./reports/RNA_filtering_data/multiqc_data.json
./reports/RNA_filtering_data/multiqc_cutadapt.txt
./reports/RNA_filtering_data/multiqc_general_stats.txt
./reports/RNA_filtering_data/multiqc.log
./reports/RNA_filtering.html
./reports/barcode_filtering_data
./reports/barcode_filtering_data/multiqc_sources.txt
./reports/barcode_filtering_data/multiqc_data.json
./reports/barcode_filtering_data/multiqc_cutadapt.txt
./reports/barcode_filtering_data/multiqc_general_stats.txt
./reports/barcode_filtering_data/multiqc.log
./reports/barcode_filtering.html
./reports/star_data
./reports/star_data/multiqc_sources.txt
./reports/star_data/multiqc_star.txt
./reports/star_data/multiqc_data.json
./reports/star_data/multiqc_general_stats.txt
./reports/star_data/multiqc.log
./reports/star.html
./plots
./plots/rna_metrics
./plots/knee_plots
./plots/knee_plots/sample1_knee_plot.pdf
./summary
./summary/read
./summary/read/barcodes.tsv
./summary/read/genes.tsv
./summary/read/matrix.mtx
./summary/umi
./summary/umi/barcodes.tsv
./summary/umi/genes.tsv
./summary/umi/matrix.mtx
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Hoohm commented Apr 1, 2020 via email

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The plots folder is there, I think that some plots failed, perhaps due to an R library problem on the server. I do have the plots for the same data pre-downsampled (ie. not just 100 cells at 10K reads, but all the data for all the cells:

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clean_qc file:

Adapter,Sequence,Pair,Count
Illumina_Universal,AGATCGGAAGAG,R1,5
PrefixNX/1,AGATGTGTATAAGAGACAG,R1,0
Trans1,TCGTCGGCAGCGTCAGATGTGTATAAGAGACAG,R1,0
Trans1_rc,CTGTCTCTTATACACATCTGACGCTGCCGACGA,R1,697
Trans2,GTCTCGTGGGCTCGGAGATGTGTATAAGAGACAG,R1,0
Trans2_rc,CTGTCTCTTATACACATCTCCGAGCCCACGAGAC,R1,62525
polyA,AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA,R1,6129
polyT,TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT,R1,780065
polyC,CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC,R1,5133
polyG,GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG,R1,434
drop-seq,GTACTCTGCGTTGATACCACTGCTTCCGCGGACAGGC,R1,0
Nextera,CTGTCTCTTATACACATCT,R1,104
Illumina_Universal,AGATCGGAAGAG,R2,843
PrefixNX/1,AGATGTGTATAAGAGACAG,R2,627
Trans1,TCGTCGGCAGCGTCAGATGTGTATAAGAGACAG,R2,44
Trans1_rc,CTGTCTCTTATACACATCTGACGCTGCCGACGA,R2,815
Trans2,GTCTCGTGGGCTCGGAGATGTGTATAAGAGACAG,R2,31
Trans2_rc,CTGTCTCTTATACACATCTCCGAGCCCACGAGAC,R2,25
polyA,AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA,R2,505027
polyT,TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT,R2,2125
polyC,CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC,R2,7866
polyG,GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG,R2,3347
drop-seq,GTACTCTGCGTTGATACCACTGCTTCCGCGGACAGGC,R2,63726
Nextera,CTGTCTCTTATACACATCT,R2,94

thanks!

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Hi @Hoohm,
Do the plot or data above help you understand how we're only seeing about 3500 reads per cell in our read-based matrix.mtx file? If I understand the plot correctly I expected to see about twice the number that we're seeing. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Hoohm commented Apr 3, 2020 via email

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Star results...
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Hoohm commented Apr 4, 2020 via email

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The 3000 is the total reads per cell. I also have the UMI counts which average down around 1000 counts per cell.

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Hoohm commented Apr 4, 2020

From the cleanqc I see that around 800'000 of your R1 has been trimmed, that means your left with around 200'000 reads after trimming. From there, you loose around 20% so you end up with 150'000 so, assuming similar distribution of your data for all the cells, this would be around 1500 reads per cell.

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Great. Would it be correct to interpret this as the reads have lots of polyA/T included that don't contain enough 3' RNA to be useful?

@RichardCorbett
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I just heard that our libraries for this test were 100-150bp shorter than intended which seems to be concordant with the interpretation that many of our read pairs did not contain significant mRNA signal adjacent to the polyA sequence as shown by these lines from the clean_qc file:

polyT,TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT,R1,780065
polyA,AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA,R2,505027

Does this seem to make sense to you?

thanks
RIchard

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Hoohm commented Jun 24, 2020

Yes, seems to be inline with my interpretation.

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