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From 04/03/2018 to 05/02/2018

04/30/2018

11:42 AM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Bug #46 (New): Read binning with CONCOCT
CONCOCT “bins” metagenomic contigs. Metagenomic binning is the process of clustering sequences into clusters correspo... Katie Lennard

04/26/2018

04:39 PM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #45 (New): Quality trimming with Trimmomatic
In short after a bit of a struggle to optimize parameters for quality trimming with Trimmomatic I recommend rather us... Katie Lennard
01:13 PM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #27: What we already know and have setup
Hi Katie,
Regarding metabat.
1. Yes it is dockerised but Hex does not support that so we would need to convert...
Gerrit Botha
09:51 AM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #27: What we already know and have setup
Thanks Gerrit,
This workflow https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/metabat is also an option - it is dockerised, uses ...
Katie Lennard

04/25/2018

03:24 PM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #27: What we already know and have setup
I met the developer of this workflow: https://github.com/alesssia/YAMP at the Nextflow workshop last year. I do not t... Gerrit Botha
02:46 PM Testing Redmine project features Bug #44 (New): Testing category assignment
Testing category assignment / so that we can distinguish between parts of the project. Gerrit Botha
12:57 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Thanks Gerrit,
Will go through the results and see at which steps we might want to adjust parameters. Yes it's fin...
Katie Lennard
11:55 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
HI Katie,
This is good news, thanks for testing a complete run from beginning to end.
Also , thanks for openin...
Gerrit Botha
10:51 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Test run completed successfully! Input and output at /researchdata/fhgfs/katie/NGI-RNAseq-test/ (permissions open to ... Katie Lennard

04/24/2018

03:18 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Andrew has enabled sendmail to send emails from the compute nodes. I tested
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gerrit@srvslshpc602:~> echo "Subj...
Gerrit Botha

04/23/2018

06:08 PM Testing Redmine project features Bug #41 (Resolved): Testing adding image inline
Gerrit Botha
06:07 PM Testing Redmine project features Bug #41: Testing adding image inline
OK seems like you need to attach an image to the ticket. I removed spacing and replaced with underscore, not sure if ... Gerrit Botha
05:53 PM Testing Redmine project features Bug #41: Testing adding image inline
Adding image inline
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![](http://bst.cbio.uct.ac.za/redmine/attachme...
Gerrit Botha
05:52 PM Testing Redmine project features Bug #41 (Resolved): Testing adding image inline
Testing adding image inline Gerrit Botha
05:46 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
The run completed successfully.
Here was the rest of the screen logs.
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....
[50/552125] NOTE: Process `m...
Gerrit Botha
01:03 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
OK the MarkDuplicates process ran out of memory. I added a section here: https://github.com/uct-cbio/RNAseq/commit/71... Gerrit Botha
11:42 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
STAR alignment on sample38 and 39 completed successfully. It now however failed on running Picard MarkDuplicates. Can... Gerrit Botha

04/20/2018

05:19 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
The core settings were stuck to ppn=16. This was because the default max core settings were set to 16. Added a defaul... Gerrit Botha
04:15 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
I've added STAR requirements to use 40 cores on the first run attempt. With 40 cores we will be able to access 80GB R... Gerrit Botha
12:53 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
The STAR job on sample38 failed again.
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PBS Job Id: 1841542.srvslshpc001
Job Name: sample39
Exec host: sr...
Gerrit Botha
03:35 PM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #38 (New): How to download SRA files to hex
How to download input files (testdata) from SRA to hex:
Use sra-tools installed on hex (activate by doing ‘load modu...
Katie Lennard

04/19/2018

01:11 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
I've been looking a few things over the last 2 days. Just did not get time to record it.
The maxRetries setting di...
Gerrit Botha
12:49 PM Setting up the BST helpdesk Feature #34 (New): Add ticket type
Add a new field to the tickets, their "Type"
The type can be:
* Query (or something else)
* Support request
* P...
Jon Ambler
12:34 PM Setting up the BST helpdesk Feature #33 (Resolved): Adding time tracking to the tickets
Time tracking has now been added.
To log time, just add the time in the comment in the format:
Time: <number> ...
Jon Ambler

04/17/2018

04:51 PM Setting up the BST helpdesk Feature #33 (In Progress): Adding time tracking to the tickets
A potential option is to have a keyword in the ticket comment that can be picked up and parsed by a function. This me... Jon Ambler
04:45 PM Setting up the BST helpdesk Feature #33 (Resolved): Adding time tracking to the tickets
In order to be able to repost the time we responding on different tasks, we need to be able to log time spent on tick... Jon Ambler
04:42 PM Setting up the BST helpdesk Feature #29 (Closed): Create list of research groups to appear for ticket submission.
Jon Ambler
04:42 PM Setting up the BST helpdesk Feature #11 (Closed): Add email system
Jon Ambler
02:26 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Hi Katie.
It seems like I found the issue why it was not submitting to PBS. The ```executer``` setting should have...
Gerrit Botha

04/16/2018

05:05 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
For now I do not think we will make changes on the main code. So yes, all that we would need to do is merge the main ... Gerrit Botha
04:50 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Aha, yes you're right - if we specify -r dev with the run (using our repo fork) it does pick up the uct_hex profile. ... Katie Lennard
04:44 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Hi Katie,
Everything is on the ```dev``` branch: https://github.com/uct-cbio/RNAseq/tree/dev . So should things no...
Gerrit Botha
04:31 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Gerrit I see even though you noticed that the uct_hex.conf was only on the dev branch it looks like the master branch... Katie Lennard
03:55 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
I've tested the custom build singularity image described above. This specific repository (https://github.com/nf-core/... Katie Lennard

04/12/2018

05:28 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Thanks Gerrit, much appreciated - I'll go through this and do some testing on the new image. Katie Lennard
05:04 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Hi Katie,
I did the following.
1. Made a fork of the stable RNASeq pipeline to here: https://github.com/uct-cbi...
Gerrit Botha

04/11/2018

02:26 PM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #27: What we already know and have setup
Ok Gerrit Botha
02:25 PM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #27: What we already know and have setup
No problem Gerrit. No, Jai only got as far as asking Andrew to install the necessary software.
Katie Lennard
02:22 PM Setting up a portable metagenome assembly pipeline for CBIO Support #27: What we already know and have setup
Hi Katie,
I picked up this message from you on the bst-redmine@cbio.uct.ac.za account.
*"Gerrit this was wit...
Gerrit Botha
01:26 PM Testing human WGS alignment, calling and joint calling on DRAGEN hardware Support #23: Test the DRAGEN GATK best practice workflow on a WGS GiaB sample
Jon this message is from Nicky.
"Ok so the evaluation is done already. We need to decide if we need to make use of...
Gerrit Botha
12:56 PM Testing human WGS alignment, calling and joint calling on DRAGEN hardware Support #23: Test the DRAGEN GATK best practice workflow on a WGS GiaB sample
I found out that they have already compared Dragen to GATK and BWA using the Platinum genomes trio, the accuracy and ... Jon Ambler
11:41 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Katie if this is the Docker file you are using https://github.com/ewels/nf-core-RNAseq/blob/master/Dockerfile you wou... Gerrit Botha
11:28 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Katie Lennard wrote:
> Oh dear..Ok we'll have to get rebuild the image then I guess..See latest response from Phil o...
Katie Lennard
11:23 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Oh dear..Ok we'll have to get rebuild the image then I guess..See latest response from Phil on this https://github.co... Katie Lennard
11:18 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
OK that is fine Katie.
Just on the overlay issue. Overlayfs is only available for kernel 3.18 or higher: https://w...
Gerrit Botha
11:11 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Hi Gerrit,
At the moment the main problem is that I can't download the development version of the Singularity imag...
Katie Lennard
10:55 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Hi Katie,
1. Can you please point me to the Docker / Singularity file on GitHub which you have an issue with?
2...
Gerrit Botha

04/10/2018

05:33 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Gerrit Botha wrote:
> So what happens if you do use the ```--size``` flag with a rough estimate of the container siz...
Katie Lennard
02:22 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
So what happens if you do use the ```--size``` flag with a rough estimate of the container size?
Ok, try running t...
Gerrit Botha
01:41 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Development branch with custom 'uct_hex' profile up and running but having issues with the singularity image specifie... Katie Lennard

04/09/2018

04:37 PM Testing human WGS alignment, calling and joint calling on DRAGEN hardware Support #23: Test the DRAGEN GATK best practice workflow on a WGS GiaB sample
We had a BST meeting. Seems like there is a slight diversion from the original plan and suggestions made. Maybe bette... Gerrit Botha
12:56 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30: Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
Katie Lennard wrote:
> Gerrit Botha wrote:
> > Try again. I opened up read permissions to the binary.
>
> Hmmm, ...
Katie Lennard
12:54 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30: Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
Gerrit Botha wrote:
> Try again. I opened up read permissions to the binary.
Hmmm, kry nou:
Downloading nextflow...
Katie Lennard
11:43 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30: Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
Try again. I opened up read permissions to the binary. Gerrit Botha
11:38 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30: Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
Have added lines to .bashrc but can't test nextflow (version -v):
/bin/bash: /opt/exp_soft/cbio/nextflow/nextflow:...
Katie Lennard
11:13 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30: Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
Gerrit Botha wrote:
> Ok it is setup in ```/opt/exp_soft/cbio/nextflow```
>
> Add the following lines in your ```...
Katie Lennard
10:59 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30: Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
Ok it is setup in ```/opt/exp_soft/cbio/nextflow```
Add the following lines in your ```.bashrc```
~~~
JAVA_C...
Gerrit Botha
10:09 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30 (In Progress): Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
Ok Katie, will do it in the next hour or so. Will get back to you. Gerrit Botha
09:51 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #30 (In Progress): Update Nextflow to version 0.27.6
The RNAseq pipeline requires an updated version of Nextflow (currently 0.26.3, need 0.27.6) Katie Lennard
12:32 PM Setting up the BST helpdesk Feature #29 (Resolved): Create list of research groups to appear for ticket submission.
The research group menu has been updated with the group found in the link above. Jon Ambler
11:14 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Gerrit Botha wrote:
> Hi Katie,
>
> Initially asked me if the info you are planning to share in this ticket shoul...
Katie Lennard
11:08 AM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25: Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Hi Katie,
Initially asked me if the info you are planning to share in this ticket should go in the ticket or on th...
Gerrit Botha

04/06/2018

03:38 PM Setting up a portable RNA-Seq pipeline for CBIO Support #25 (In Progress): Configure NGI-RNAseq pipeline to run on hex
Katie Lennard
 

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