Steven asked that I assemble a transcriptome with just our pooled C.bairdi RNAseq data (not taxonomically filtered; see the FastQ list file linked in the Results section below). This constitutes samples we have designated: 2018, 2019, 2020-UW. A de novo assembly was run using Trinity on Mox. Since all pooled RNAseq libraries were stranded, I added this option to Trinity command.

SBATCH script (GitHub):

20200518_cbai_trinity_pooled_RNAseq.sh

#!/bin/bash
## Job Name
#SBATCH --job-name=trinity_cbai
## Allocation Definition
#SBATCH --account=srlab
#SBATCH --partition=srlab
## Resources
## Nodes
#SBATCH --nodes=1
## Walltime (days-hours:minutes:seconds format)
#SBATCH --time=9-00:00:00
## Memory per node
#SBATCH --mem=500G
##turn on e-mail notification
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL
#SBATCH --mail-user=samwhite@uw.edu
## Specify the working directory for this job
#SBATCH --chdir=/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/outputs/20200518_cbai_trinity_pooled_RNAseq


### Trinity de novo assembly of all pooled C.bairdi RNAseq data.
### Includes "descriptor_1" short-hand of: 2020-UW, 2019, 2018.
### See fastq.list.txt file for list of input files used for assembly.

# Exit script if a command fails
set -e

# Load Python Mox module for Python module availability
module load intel-python3_2017

# Document programs in PATH (primarily for program version ID)
{
date
echo ""
echo "System PATH for $SLURM_JOB_ID"
echo ""
printf "%0.s-" {1..10}
echo "${PATH}" | tr : \\n
} >> system_path.log

# User-defined variables
reads_dir=/gscratch/srlab/sam/data/C_bairdi/RNAseq
transcriptome_dir=/gscratch/srlab/sam/data/C_bairdi/transcriptomes
threads=28
assembly_stats=assembly_stats.txt
timestamp=$(date +%Y%m%d)
fasta_name="${timestamp}.C_bairdi.Trinity.fasta"

# Paths to programs
trinity_dir="/gscratch/srlab/programs/trinityrnaseq-v2.9.0"
samtools="/gscratch/srlab/programs/samtools-1.10/samtools"


## Inititalize arrays
R1_array=()
R2_array=()

# Variables for R1/R2 lists
R1_list=""
R2_list=""

# Create array of fastq R1 files
R1_array=("${reads_dir}"/3*_S[0-9]*R1*-trim*.gz)

# Create array of fastq R2 files
R2_array=("${reads_dir}"/3*_S[0-9]*R2*-trim*.gz)

# Create list of fastq files used in analysis
## Uses parameter substitution to strip leading path from filename
for fastq in "${reads_dir}"/3*_S[0-9]*-trim*.gz
do
  echo "${fastq##*/}" >> fastq.list.txt
done

# Create comma-separated lists of FastQ reads
R1_list=$(echo "${R1_array[@]}" | tr " " ",")
R2_list=$(echo "${R2_array[@]}" | tr " " ",")


# Run Trinity
## Not running as "stranded", due to mix of library types
${trinity_dir}/Trinity \
--seqType fq \
--max_memory 500G \
--CPU ${threads} \
--SS_lib_type RF \
--left "${R1_list}" \
--right "${R2_list}"

# Rename generic assembly FastA
mv trinity_out_dir/Trinity.fasta trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}"

# Assembly stats
${trinity_dir}/util/TrinityStats.pl trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}" \
> ${assembly_stats}

# Create gene map files
${trinity_dir}/util/support_scripts/get_Trinity_gene_to_trans_map.pl \
trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}" \
> trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}".gene_trans_map

# Create sequence lengths file (used for differential gene expression)
${trinity_dir}/util/misc/fasta_seq_length.pl \
trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}" \
> trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}".seq_lens

# Create FastA index
${samtools} faidx \
trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}"

# Copy files to transcriptome directory
rsync -av \
trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}"* \
${transcriptome_dir}

# Generate FastA MD5 checksum
# See last line of SLURM output file
md5sum trinity_out_dir/"${fasta_name}"

RESULTS

Pretty quick; only ~18hrs:

NOTE: The resulting FastA will be referred to as cbai_transcriptome_v3.0.fasta in future references.

Output folder:

20200518_cbai_trinity_pooled_RNAseq

Input FastQ list (text):

fastq.list.txt

FastA (412MB):

20200518.C_bairdi.Trinity.fasta
- MD5 = 5516789cbad5fa9009c3566003557875

FastA Index (text):

20200518.C_bairdi.Trinity.fasta.fai

The following sets of files are useful for downstream gene expression and annotation using Trinity.

Trinity FastA Gene Trans Map (text):

20200518.C_bairdi.Trinity.fasta.gene_trans_map

Trinity FastA Sequence Lengths (text):

20200518.C_bairdi.Trinity.fasta.seq_lens

Assembly stats (text):

assembly_stats.txt

################################
## Counts of transcripts, etc.
################################
Total trinity 'genes':  127738
Total trinity transcripts:  344944
Percent GC: 46.21

########################################
Stats based on ALL transcript contigs:
########################################

    Contig N10: 4597
    Contig N20: 3479
    Contig N30: 2835
    Contig N40: 2375
    Contig N50: 1985

    Median contig length: 650
    Average contig: 1132.95
    Total assembled bases: 390805991


#####################################################
## Stats based on ONLY LONGEST ISOFORM per 'GENE':
#####################################################

    Contig N10: 4680
    Contig N20: 3487
    Contig N30: 2791
    Contig N40: 2266
    Contig N50: 1791

    Median contig length: 381
    Average contig: 845.46
    Total assembled bases: 107996989