title: NGS-QCbox and Raspberry for Parallel, Automated and Rapid Quality Control Analysis of Large-Scale Next Generation Sequencing (Illumina) Data.
abstract: Rapid popularity and adaptation of next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches have generated huge volumes of data. High throughput platforms like Illumina HiSeq produce terabytes of raw data that requires quick processing. Quality control of the data is an important component prior to the downstream analyses. To address these issues, we have developed a quality control pipeline, NGS-QCbox that scales up to process hundreds or thousands of samples. Raspberry is an in-house tool, developed in C language utilizing HTSlib (v1.2.1) (http://htslib.org), for computing read/base level statistics. It can be used as stand-alone application and can process both compressed and uncompressed FASTQ format files. NGS-QCbox integrates Raspberry with other open-source tools for alignment (Bowtie2), SNP calling (SAMtools) and other utilities (bedtools) towards analyzing raw NGS data at higher efficiency and in high-throughput manner. The pipeline implements batch processing of jobs using Bpipe (https://github.com/ssadedin/bpipe) in parallel and internally, a fine grained task parallelization utilizing OpenMP. It reports read and base statistics along with genome coverage and variants in a user friendly format. The pipeline developed presents a simple menu driven interface and can be used in either quick or complete mode. In addition, the pipeline in quick mode outperforms in speed against other similar existing QC pipeline/tools. The NGS-QCbox pipeline, Raspberry tool and associated scripts are made available at the URL https://github.com/CEG-ICRISAT/NGS-QCbox and https://github.com/CEG-ICRISAT/Raspberry for rapid quality control analysis of large-scale next generation sequencing (Illumina) data.
authors.affiliation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Mohan A V S K
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Katta
authors.affiliation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Aamir W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Dadakhalandar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Doddamani
authors.affiliation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Mahendar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thudi
authors.affiliation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India; School of Plant Biology and Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
authors.forename: Rajeev K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Varshney
mesh_terms: D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software