Augur

Introduction

Augur is the bioinformatics toolkit we use to track evolution from sequence and serological data.

For more information, please check its website: https://biocontainers.pro/tools/augur and its home page on Github.

Versions

  • 14.0.0

  • 15.0.0

Commands

  • augur

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load augur

Example job

Warning

Using #!/bin/sh -l as shebang in the slurm job script will cause the failure of some biocontainer modules. Please use #!/bin/bash instead.

To run Augur on our our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=augur
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers augur

mkdir -p results
augur index --sequences zika-tutorial/data/sequences.fasta \
            --output results/sequence_index.tsv

augur filter --sequences zika-tutorial/data/sequences.fasta \
             --sequence-index results/sequence_index.tsv \
             --metadata  zika-tutorial/data/metadata.tsv \
             --exclude zika-tutorial/config/dropped_strains.txt \
             --output results/filtered.fasta \
             --group-by country year month \
             --sequences-per-group 20 \
             --min-date 2012

augur align --sequences results/filtered.fasta \
            --reference-sequence zika-tutorial/config/zika_outgroup.gb \
            --output results/aligned.fasta \
            --fill-gaps

augur tree --alignment results/aligned.fasta \
           --output results/tree_raw.nwk

augur refine --tree results/tree_raw.nwk \
             --alignment results/aligned.fasta \
             --metadata  zika-tutorial/data/metadata.tsv \
             --output-tree results/tree.nwk \
             --output-node-data results/branch_lengths.json \
             --timetree \
             --coalescent opt \
             --date-confidence \
             --date-inference marginal \
             --clock-filter-iqd 4