PM4NGS: Program manager for NGS data analysis

PM4NGS is designed to generate a standard organizational structure for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis including directory structures for the project, Jupyter notebooks for data management and CWL workflows for the pipeline execution.

Our work was inspired for a paper published by Prof. William Noble in 2009: A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects. We recommend reading this manuscript for a better understanding of the guiding principles of the PM4NGS project.

The project is composed of three parts:

• the project organizational structure which defines standard files and directories for the project
• the Jupyter Notebook which is a user interface for the data management and the visualization of results
• the CWL workflow that executes the data analysis

PM4NGS source code includes the templates used by cookiecutter to generate the project organizational structure and the Jupyter notebooks. The CWL workflows are defined in a separate GitHub project named: cwl-ngs-workflows-cbb.

Powered by Cookiecutter, Jupyter Notebook, CWL, Docker, Conda and Bioconda.

Documentation

Go to https://pm4ngs.readthedocs.io for more detail information.

Reference

• Vera Alvarez R, Pongor LS, Mariño-Ramírez L and Landsman D. PM4NGS, a project management framework for next-generation sequencing data analysis, GigaScience, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2021, giaa141, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa141
• Vera Alvarez R, Mariño-Ramírez L and Landsman D. Transcriptome annotation in the cloud: complexity, best practices, and cost, GigaScience, Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2021, giaa163, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa163
• Vera Alvarez R, Pongor LS, Mariño-Ramírez L and Landsman D. Containerized open-source framework for NGS data analysis and management [version 1; not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2019, 8(ISCB Comm J):1229 (poster) (doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1117155.1)

Features

• NGS data integration, management and analysis based on Jupyter notebook, CWL workflows and cookiecutter project templates
• Easy installation and use with a minimum command line interaction.
• Data analysis CWL workflows executed from the Jupyter notebook with automatic failing detection and validated with published data
• CWL workflows and Jupyter Notebooks ready for cloud computing
• Project reports and dynamic content creation after data processing using CWL workflows
• Optional use of Docker/Biocontainers or Conda/Bioconda for Bioinformatics tool installation and management

External dependencies

• poppler

Public Domain notice

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