Contents

1 Background

After fertilization but prior to the onset of zygotic transcription, the C. elegans zygote cleaves asymmetrically to create the anterior AB and posterior P1 blastomeres, each of which goes on to generate distinct cell lineages. To understand how patterns of RNA inheritance and abundance arise after this first asymmetric cell division, we pooled hand-dissected AB and P1 blastomeres and performed RNA-seq. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE59943

library(Rsubread)
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We will use the Rsubread read mapper because that is avaible in R for all platforms (Linux, Windows and Mac). For real projects I prefer the use of STAR.

2 Get info on experiment

2.1 Get info on samples

Get all info from GEO. get sample info via getGEO (info from samples)

gse<-getGEO("GSE59943")
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## GSE59943-GPL13657_series_matrix.txt.gz
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length(gse)
## [1] 2

There are two objects because there were runs with two different machines. Combine the data from both files and add sample name column in order to be able to link the info to that from SRA.

pdata<-rbind(pData(gse[[1]]),pData(gse[[2]]))
pdata$SampleName<-rownames(pdata)

2.2 Get info on sequencing files

Download SRA info. To link sample info to info sequencing: Go to corresponding SRA page and save the information via the “Send to: File button” This file can also be used to make a script to download sequencing files from the web. Note that sra files can be converted to fastq files via the fastq-dump function of the sra-tools.

sraInfo<-read.csv("SraRunInfo.csv")
pdata<-merge(pdata,sraInfo,by="SampleName")
pdata$Run
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## 6 Levels: SRR1532959 SRR1532960 SRR1532961 SRR1532962 ... SRR1532964

The run is also the name of the SRA file so we will be able to link alignment file name to the experiment via the SRA file info.

3 Build index for C. elegans

Download the Caenorhabditis_elegans.WBcel235.dna.toplevel.fa.gz from ensembl. Note that there is no info on multiple haplotypes so the primary assembly files are missing. So the info in toplevel file is the primary assembly.

path<-"~/Downloads/elegans/"
elegansGenome<-paste0(path,"Caenorhabditis_elegans.WBcel235.dna.toplevel.fa.gz")
system("mkdir elegans_index")
indexName<-"elegans_index/elegans_index_WBcel235_rsubread"
buildindex(basename=indexName,reference=elegansGenome)
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3.1 set path to reads and output

fastqDir  <- paste0(path,"fastQ")
fls <- list.files(fastqDir, "fastq.gz", full=TRUE)
names(fls) <- sub("small.fastq.gz", "", basename(fls))
system("mkdir bamDir")
bamDir<-"./bamDir"
bamfls<-paste0(bamDir,"/",names(fls),".bam")
names(bamfls)<-names(fls)

3.2 Readmapping

The offset for the phred scores is 64. We find info on illumina incoding in quality control step of fastQC.

phredOffset<-64
align(index=indexName,readfile1=fls,input_format="gzFASTQ",output_format="BAM",output_file=bamfls,phredOffset=phredOffset)
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## ||                      Mapped : 1685472 (94.5%)                              ||
## ||             Uniquely mapped : 1632698                                      ||
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##         =====         / ____| |  | |  _ \|  __ \|  ____|   /\   |  __ \ 
##           =====      | (___ | |  | | |_) | |__) | |__     /  \  | |  | |
##             ====      \___ \| |  | |  _ <|  _  /|  __|   / /\ \ | |  | |
##               ====    ____) | |__| | |_) | | \ \| |____ / ____ \| |__| |
##         ==========   |_____/ \____/|____/|_|  \_\______/_/    \_\_____/
##        Rsubread 1.34.7
## 
## //================================= setting ==================================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Function      : Read alignment (RNA-Seq)                                   ||
## || Input file    : SRR1532963small.fastq.gz                                   ||
## || Output file   : SRR1532963.bam (BAM)                                       ||
## || Index name    : elegans_index_WBcel235_rsubread                            ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                    ------------------------------------                    ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                               Threads : 1                                  ||
## ||                          Phred offset : 64                                 ||
## ||                             Min votes : 3 / 10                             ||
## ||                        Max mismatches : 3                                  ||
## ||                      Max indel length : 5                                  ||
## ||            Report multi-mapping reads : yes                                ||
## || Max alignments per multi-mapping read : 1                                  ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\============================================================================//
## 
## //================= Running (27-Oct-2019 15:25:33, pid=8867) =================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## || The input file contains base space reads.                                  ||
## || The range of Phred scores observed in the data is [2,41]                   ||
## || Load the 1-th index block...                                               ||
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## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                           Completed successfully.                          ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\====================================    ====================================//
## 
## //================================   Summary =================================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                 Total reads : 2736076                                      ||
## ||                      Mapped : 2627215 (96.0%)                              ||
## ||             Uniquely mapped : 2451220                                      ||
## ||               Multi-mapping : 175995                                       ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                    Unmapped : 108861                                       ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                      Indels : 11317                                        ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                Running time : 1.4 minutes                                  ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\============================================================================//
## 
## 
##         ==========     _____ _    _ ____  _____  ______          _____  
##         =====         / ____| |  | |  _ \|  __ \|  ____|   /\   |  __ \ 
##           =====      | (___ | |  | | |_) | |__) | |__     /  \  | |  | |
##             ====      \___ \| |  | |  _ <|  _  /|  __|   / /\ \ | |  | |
##               ====    ____) | |__| | |_) | | \ \| |____ / ____ \| |__| |
##         ==========   |_____/ \____/|____/|_|  \_\______/_/    \_\_____/
##        Rsubread 1.34.7
## 
## //================================= setting ==================================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Function      : Read alignment (RNA-Seq)                                   ||
## || Input file    : SRR1532964small.fastq.gz                                   ||
## || Output file   : SRR1532964.bam (BAM)                                       ||
## || Index name    : elegans_index_WBcel235_rsubread                            ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                    ------------------------------------                    ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                               Threads : 1                                  ||
## ||                          Phred offset : 64                                 ||
## ||                             Min votes : 3 / 10                             ||
## ||                        Max mismatches : 3                                  ||
## ||                      Max indel length : 5                                  ||
## ||            Report multi-mapping reads : yes                                ||
## || Max alignments per multi-mapping read : 1                                  ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\============================================================================//
## 
## //================= Running (27-Oct-2019 15:26:54, pid=8867) =================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## || The input file contains base space reads.                                  ||
## || The range of Phred scores observed in the data is [2,41]                   ||
## || Load the 1-th index block...                                               ||
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## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                           Completed successfully.                          ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\====================================    ====================================//
## 
## //================================   Summary =================================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                 Total reads : 2338023                                      ||
## ||                      Mapped : 2245445 (96.0%)                              ||
## ||             Uniquely mapped : 2184002                                      ||
## ||               Multi-mapping : 61443                                        ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                    Unmapped : 92578                                        ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                      Indels : 8247                                         ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                Running time : 1.1 minutes                                  ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\============================================================================//
##                       SRR1532959.bam SRR1532960.bam SRR1532961.bam
## Total_reads                  1783870        1610969        2117313
## Mapped_reads                 1685472        1353023        2049912
## Uniquely_mapped_reads        1632698        1300506        2005307
## Multi_mapping_reads            52774          52517          44605
## Unmapped_reads                 98398         257946          67401
## Indels                          2512           2303           7289
##                       SRR1532962.bam SRR1532963.bam SRR1532964.bam
## Total_reads                  1410013        2736076        2338023
## Mapped_reads                 1327093        2627215        2245445
## Uniquely_mapped_reads        1299154        2451220        2184002
## Multi_mapping_reads            27939         175995          61443
## Unmapped_reads                 82920         108861          92578
## Indels                          4824          11317           8247

4 CountTable

fcElegans<-featureCounts(files=bamfls,annot.ext=paste0(path,"Caenorhabditis_elegans.WBcel235.98.gtf.gz"),isGTFAnnotationFile=TRUE, GTF.featureType = "exon", GTF.attrType = "gene_id", useMetaFeatures = TRUE, strandSpecific = 0, 
                    isPairedEnd = FALSE)
## 
##         ==========     _____ _    _ ____  _____  ______          _____  
##         =====         / ____| |  | |  _ \|  __ \|  ____|   /\   |  __ \ 
##           =====      | (___ | |  | | |_) | |__) | |__     /  \  | |  | |
##             ====      \___ \| |  | |  _ <|  _  /|  __|   / /\ \ | |  | |
##               ====    ____) | |__| | |_) | | \ \| |____ / ____ \| |__| |
##         ==========   |_____/ \____/|____/|_|  \_\______/_/    \_\_____/
##        Rsubread 1.34.7
## 
## //========================== featureCounts setting ===========================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||             Input files : 6 BAM files                                      ||
## ||                           o SRR1532959.bam                                 ||
## ||                           o SRR1532960.bam                                 ||
## ||                           o SRR1532961.bam                                 ||
## ||                           o SRR1532962.bam                                 ||
## ||                           o SRR1532963.bam                                 ||
## ||                           o SRR1532964.bam                                 ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||              Annotation : Caenorhabditis_elegans.WBcel235.98.gtf.gz (GTF)  ||
## ||      Dir for temp files : .                                                ||
## ||                 Threads : 1                                                ||
## ||                   Level : meta-feature level                               ||
## ||              Paired-end : no                                               ||
## ||      Multimapping reads : counted                                          ||
## || Multi-overlapping reads : not counted                                      ||
## ||   Min overlapping bases : 1                                                ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\============================================================================//
## 
## //================================= Running ==================================\\
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Load annotation file Caenorhabditis_elegans.WBcel235.98.gtf.gz ...         ||
## ||    Features : 273641                                                       ||
## ||    Meta-features : 46904                                                   ||
## ||    Chromosomes/contigs : 7                                                 ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Process BAM file SRR1532959.bam...                                         ||
## ||    Single-end reads are included.                                          ||
## ||    Total alignments : 1783870                                              ||
## ||    Successfully assigned alignments : 1657500 (92.9%)                      ||
## ||    Running time : 0.06 minutes                                             ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Process BAM file SRR1532960.bam...                                         ||
## ||    Single-end reads are included.                                          ||
## ||    Total alignments : 1610969                                              ||
## ||    Successfully assigned alignments : 1323934 (82.2%)                      ||
## ||    Running time : 0.05 minutes                                             ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Process BAM file SRR1532961.bam...                                         ||
## ||    Single-end reads are included.                                          ||
## ||    Total alignments : 2117313                                              ||
## ||    Successfully assigned alignments : 2013110 (95.1%)                      ||
## ||    Running time : 0.07 minutes                                             ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Process BAM file SRR1532962.bam...                                         ||
## ||    Single-end reads are included.                                          ||
## ||    Total alignments : 1410013                                              ||
## ||    Successfully assigned alignments : 1304759 (92.5%)                      ||
## ||    Running time : 0.05 minutes                                             ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Process BAM file SRR1532963.bam...                                         ||
## ||    Single-end reads are included.                                          ||
## ||    Total alignments : 2736076                                              ||
## ||    Successfully assigned alignments : 2568046 (93.9%)                      ||
## ||    Running time : 0.12 minutes                                             ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## || Process BAM file SRR1532964.bam...                                         ||
## ||    Single-end reads are included.                                          ||
## ||    Total alignments : 2338023                                              ||
## ||    Successfully assigned alignments : 2208253 (94.4%)                      ||
## ||    Running time : 0.07 minutes                                             ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## ||                                                                            ||
## \\============================================================================//
countTableElegans<-fcElegans$counts

We save the countTable for future use

saveRDS(fcElegans,file="fcElegans.rds")
saveRDS(pdata,file="elegansMetaData.rds")