Usage

To use g2gtools in command line

Note: This is the official tutorial for Release Version 0.1.XX Note: We will assume you installed g2gtools in its own conda virtual environment. First of all, you have to “activate” the virtual environment by doing the following:

source activate g2gtools

To create a custom genome, we need the following information:

${REF}         reference genome in fasta format
${STRAIN}      strain name (usually a column name in the vcf file), e.g., CAST_EiJ
${VCF_INDELS}  vcf file for indels
${VCF_SNPS}    vcf file for snps
${GTF}         gene annotation file in gtf format

First of all, we need to create a chain file for mapping bases between two genomes. In this case, between reference and some other strain, like CAST_EiJ:

$ g2gtools vcf2chain -f ${REF} -i ${VCF_INDELS} -s ${STRAIN} -o ${STRAIN}/REF-to-${STRAIN}.chain

Then we patch snps onto reference genome:

$ g2gtools patch -i ${REF} -s ${STRAIN} -v ${VCF_SNPS} -o ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.patched.fa

We incorporate indels onto the snp-patched genome:

$ g2gtools transform -i ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.patched.fa -c ${STRAIN}/REF-to-${STRAIN}.chain -o ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.fa

Create custom gene annotation with respect to the new custom genome. We also create custom annotation database (so we can extract from custom genome) in the following steps:

$ g2gtools convert -c ${STRAIN}/REF-to-${STRAIN}.chain -i ${GTF} -f gtf -o ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.gtf
$ g2gtools gtf2db -i ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.gtf -o ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.gtf.db

We can also extract regions of interest from the custom genome. For example,:

$ g2gtools extract --transcripts -i ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.fa -db ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.gtf.db > ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.transcripts.fa
$ g2gtools extract --genes -i ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.fa -db ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.gtf.db > ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.genes.fa
$ g2gtools extract --exons -i ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.fa -db ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.gtf.db > ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.exons.fa

If snp-patched genome is not of interest, we can remove it:

$ rm ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.patched.fa
$ rm ${STRAIN}/${STRAIN}.patched.fa.fai

To use g2gtools in a project

All the features are available as a python module. You can simply:

import g2gtools