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Single Cell RNASeq Pipeline used in Altman Manuscript
Current Pipeline used to process and integrate the latest 2023 samples and organoids into the master merge and collaboration Visvader master merge with subtyping analysis.
Step 01: FastQC and MultiFastQC
Step
Details
Tool Name and Version
FastQC v0.11.9
Pipeline Script
01_fastqc.sh
Input File Format
Text file with one FastQ file name and absolut path per line.
None, manually run MultiQC in same directory as FastQC output.
Output Files used in downstream steps?
No, FastQC and MultiQC reports are manually reviewed to inform on data quality.
Step 02: Single Sample Alignment
Step
Details
Tool Name and Version
CellRanger, cellranger-6.0.1
Pipeline Script
02_runCellRanger.sh
Input File Format
No header, TAB delimited, has the following 5 columns: sample ID used in fastq file name, result directory name, reference genome (grch38, mm10, or grch38mm10), number of cells to target, absolute path to raw fastq data directory.
Yes: PDX Samples have a GEM file used to identify human cells in the step 3, removing mouse cells. Pure Human/Mouse or Organoid Samples utilize the filtered_bc_matrix data files as input into step 5, finding dead cells.
Output File formats and type
CellRanger “outs” directory with GEM file and "filtered_feature_bc_matrix" directory of files.
Step 03: Removal of Mouse Cells and Conversion Back to FastQ
Step
Details
Tool Name and Version
subset-bam 1.1.0
Tool Name and Version
bamtofastq v1.3.2
Pipeline Script
03_create_human_bam.sh
Input File Format
TAB delimited, has the following 3 columns: sample ID (same as Step 02), absolute path to samples “outs/analysis” directory, absolute path to samples “outs” directory.
Yes, FastQ files used in step 4, realignment to human genome.
Output File formats and type
BAM and FastQ files that only contain human reads.
Step 04: Realign to Human only Genome
Step
Details
Tool Name and Version
CellRanger cellranger-6.0.1
Pipeline Script
02_runCellRanger.sh
Input File Format
See Step 02; must edit the number of cells to those that are human only instead of the default targeted number. Also add the "-F" for force cells option to stop CellRanger from doing further filtering of cells.
Yes, the CSV file “cells2keeps” listing the good quality barcodes is used in step 6, sample merging.
Output File formats and type
Tab delim .txt report, .png images of violin plots before and after filtering, and .csv “cells2keep” files listing barcodes to keep.
Step 06: Sample Merging
Step
Details
Tool Name and Version
R 4.1.3
Tool Name and Version
hdf5-1.12.2
Pipeline script
06_SeuratMerge.R
Input File Format
Comma delimited, has header row (SampleName,DataType,SamplePath,Source,Condition,Sex,TumorType,Cells2Keep), has the following 8 columns (but more can be added and will be used as cell annotations): Sample ID, data type (10X or seurat), absolute path to sample’s “filtered_feature_bc_matrix” directory, sample source (e.g. PDX, MGT, etc), condition or treatment, sample sex (M or F), tumor type (e.g. HCI011, UCD52, etc), absolute path to CSV file listing barcodes of cells to keep in merge.
Example Usage (use --help option for all parameters)
Yes, .h5 file is used by CellRanger Reanalyze to generate a Loupe file
Output File formats and type
.h5 file, RData file contining the merged Seurat object, multiple .CSV annotation files (one for each column in the input CSV file)
Step 07: Create Loupe File
Note: During the development of this manuscript the RLoupe package that converts Seurat objects to Loupe-compatible files had not been released and this was our work-around.
Step
Details
Tool Name and Version
CellRanger cellranger-6.0.1
Pipeline script
N/A, calls the reanalyze function directly.
Input File Format
the .h5 file generated from the merging script in step 06.
Yes, Loupe file used for figure generation and analysis.
Output File formats and type
CellRanger “outs” directory with a Loupe File.
Once the Loupe file is generated, it is opened and the annotation CSV files from step 06 are manually imported. This includes the UMAP and tSNE layouts and the SNN clusters. Because this was a work-around and not a supported conversion method by 10X the layout and clustering of the default generated data in the Loupe file cannot be trusted as can be seen by the SampleID that ever only has 99 barcodes in it. The LoupeR package fixes most of this; however, at this point the annotations are being imported incorrectly.
Step 08: Identifying Malignant Cells using InferCNV
This step was only done once on a 30% subsampled dataset as using the entire dataset exceeded out compute resources.
This script only processes all samples in the input file in batches of "k" at a time. The same 5 manually selected samples are also run with each batch and are used to calculate the Zscores.
Yes, the CSV files were loaded into the Loupe File and used to identify clusters of cells that are normal-like.
Output File formats and type
CSV files with scores, RDA file with inferCNV object
The InferCNV scores were overlaid on the Loupe plot to identify if the normal samples correlated with low z-scores. For our data they did, so instead of filtering on individual cells by Z-score, we removed all cells that clustered with the normal samples in the UMAP plot. New "Cells2Keep" files were generated to identify
Step 09: Cancer-Only Merge.
Some of this was done manually by using the master merge to select the normal clusters in the UMAP plot to remove those cells. Any non-normal cell that clustered with the normals was ALSO REMOVED from the Cancer-Only Dataset. The chosen cancer-only barcodes were downloaded into a single file and input into the script "cells2keep_convertMerged2Unmerged_050823.R", which divided them up into new "cells2keep" csv files and saved them in the appropriate directories. ---I NEED TO ANNOTATE THIS PROCeSS AND DESCRIBE THE SCRIPT---
Step
Details
Tool Names and Versions
R 4.1.3
Pipeline script
06_SeuratMerge.R
Input File Format
Comma delimited, has header row (SampleName,DataType,SamplePath,Source,Condition,Sex,TumorType,Cells2Keep), has the following 8 columns (but more can be added and will be used as cell annotations): Sample ID, data type (10X or seurat), absolute path to sample’s “filtered_feature_bc_matrix” directory, sample source (e.g. PDX, MGT, etc), condition or treatment, sample sex (M or F), tumor type (e.g. HCI011, UCD52, etc), absolute path to CSV file listing barcodes of cells to keep in merge.