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MarkDuplicatesWithMateCigar (Picard)

Identifies duplicate reads, accounting for mate CIGAR. This tool locates and tags duplicate reads (both PCR and optical) in a BAM or SAM file, where duplicate reads are defined as originating from the same original fragment of DNA, taking into account the CIGAR string of read mates.

It is intended as an improvement upon the original MarkDuplicates algorithm, from which it differs in several ways, includingdifferences in how it breaks ties. It may be the most effective duplicate marking program available, as it handles all cases including clipped and gapped alignments and locates duplicate molecules using mate cigar information. However, please note that it is not yet used in the Broad's production pipeline, so use it at your own risk.

Note also that this tool will not work with alignments that have large gaps or deletions, such as those from RNA-seq data. This is due to the need to buffer small genomic windows to ensure integrity of the duplicate marking, while large skips (ex. skipping introns) in the alignment records would force making that window very large, thus exhausting memory.

Note: Metrics labeled as percentages are actually expressed as fractions!

Usage example:

java -jar picard.jar MarkDuplicatesWithMateCigar \
I=input.bam \
O=mark_dups_w_mate_cig.bam \
M=mark_dups_w_mate_cig_metrics.txt

Category Read Data Manipulation


Overview

An even better duplication marking algorithm that handles all cases including clipped and gapped alignments.

This tool differs with MarkDuplicates as it may break ties differently. Furthermore, as it is a one-pass algorithm, it cannot know the program records contained in the file that should be chained in advance. Therefore it will only be able to examine the header to attempt to infer those program group records that have no associated previous program group record. If a read is encountered without a program record, or not one as previously defined, it will not be updated.

This tool will also not work with alignments that have large gaps or skips, such as those from RNA-seq data. This is due to the need to buffer small genomic windows to ensure integrity of the duplicate marking, while large skips (ex. skipping introns) in the alignment records would force making that window very large, thus exhausting memory.

MarkDuplicatesWithMateCigar (Picard) specific arguments

This table summarizes the command-line arguments that are specific to this tool. For more details on each argument, see the list further down below the table or click on an argument name to jump directly to that entry in the list.

Argument name(s) Default value Summary
Required Arguments
--INPUT
 -I
[] One or more input SAM or BAM files to analyze. Must be coordinate sorted.
--METRICS_FILE
 -M
null File to write duplication metrics to
--OUTPUT
 -O
null The output file to write marked records to
Optional Tool Arguments
--arguments_file
[] read one or more arguments files and add them to the command line
--ASSUME_SORT_ORDER
 -ASO
null If not null, assume that the input file has this order even if the header says otherwise.
--BLOCK_SIZE
100000 The block size for use in the coordinate-sorted record buffer.
--COMMENT
 -CO
[] Comment(s) to include in the output file's header.
--DUPLICATE_SCORING_STRATEGY
 -DS
TOTAL_MAPPED_REFERENCE_LENGTH The scoring strategy for choosing the non-duplicate among candidates.
--help
 -h
false display the help message
--MAX_OPTICAL_DUPLICATE_SET_SIZE
300000 This number is the maximum size of a set of duplicate reads for which we will attempt to determine which are optical duplicates. Please be aware that if you raise this value too high and do encounter a very large set of duplicate reads, it will severely affect the runtime of this tool. To completely disable this check, set the value to -1.
--MINIMUM_DISTANCE
-1 The minimum distance to buffer records to account for clipping on the 5' end of the records. For a given alignment, this parameter controls the width of the window to search for duplicates of that alignment. Due to 5' read clipping, duplicates do not necessarily have the same 5' alignment coordinates, so the algorithm needs to search around the neighborhood. For single end sequencing data, the neighborhood is only determined by the amount of clipping (assuming no split reads), thus setting MINIMUM_DISTANCE to twice the sequencing read length should be sufficient. For paired end sequencing, the neighborhood is also determined by the fragment insert size, so you may want to set MINIMUM_DISTANCE to something like twice the 99.5% percentile of the fragment insert size distribution (see CollectInsertSizeMetrics). Or you can set this number to -1 to use either a) twice the first read's read length, or b) 100, whichever is smaller. Note that the larger the window, the greater the RAM requirements, so you could run into performance limitations if you use a value that is unnecessarily large.
--OPTICAL_DUPLICATE_PIXEL_DISTANCE
100 The maximum offset between two duplicate clusters in order to consider them optical duplicates. The default is appropriate for unpatterned versions of the Illumina platform. For the patterned flowcell models, 2500 is moreappropriate. For other platforms and models, users should experiment to find what works best.
--PROGRAM_GROUP_COMMAND_LINE
 -PG_COMMAND
null Value of CL tag of PG record to be created. If not supplied the command line will be detected automatically.
--PROGRAM_GROUP_NAME
 -PG_NAME
MarkDuplicatesWithMateCigar Value of PN tag of PG record to be created.
--PROGRAM_GROUP_VERSION
 -PG_VERSION
null Value of VN tag of PG record to be created. If not specified, the version will be detected automatically.
--PROGRAM_RECORD_ID
 -PG
MarkDuplicates The program record ID for the @PG record(s) created by this program. Set to null to disable PG record creation. This string may have a suffix appended to avoid collision with other program record IDs.
--READ_NAME_REGEX
MarkDuplicates can use the tile and cluster positions to estimate the rate of optical duplication in addition to the dominant source of duplication, PCR, to provide a more accurate estimation of library size. By default (with no READ_NAME_REGEX specified), MarkDuplicates will attempt to extract coordinates using a split on ':' (see Note below). Set READ_NAME_REGEX to 'null' to disable optical duplicate detection. Note that without optical duplicate counts, library size estimation will be less accurate. If the read name does not follow a standard Illumina colon-separation convention, but does contain tile and x,y coordinates, a regular expression can be specified to extract three variables: tile/region, x coordinate and y coordinate from a read name. The regular expression must contain three capture groups for the three variables, in order. It must match the entire read name. e.g. if field names were separated by semi-colon (';') this example regex could be specified (?:.*;)?([0-9]+)[^;]*;([0-9]+)[^;]*;([0-9]+)[^;]*$ Note that if no READ_NAME_REGEX is specified, the read name is split on ':'. For 5 element names, the 3rd, 4th and 5th elements are assumed to be tile, x and y values. For 7 element names (CASAVA 1.8), the 5th, 6th, and 7th elements are assumed to be tile, x and y values.
--REMOVE_DUPLICATES
false If true do not write duplicates to the output file instead of writing them with appropriate flags set.
--SKIP_PAIRS_WITH_NO_MATE_CIGAR
true Skip record pairs with no mate cigar and include them in the output.
--version
false display the version number for this tool
Optional Common Arguments
--ADD_PG_TAG_TO_READS
true Add PG tag to each read in a SAM or BAM
--COMPRESSION_LEVEL
5 Compression level for all compressed files created (e.g. BAM and VCF).
--CREATE_INDEX
false Whether to create a BAM index when writing a coordinate-sorted BAM file.
--CREATE_MD5_FILE
false Whether to create an MD5 digest for any BAM or FASTQ files created.
--GA4GH_CLIENT_SECRETS
client_secrets.json Google Genomics API client_secrets.json file path.
--MAX_RECORDS_IN_RAM
500000 When writing files that need to be sorted, this will specify the number of records stored in RAM before spilling to disk. Increasing this number reduces the number of file handles needed to sort the file, and increases the amount of RAM needed.
--QUIET
false Whether to suppress job-summary info on System.err.
--REFERENCE_SEQUENCE
 -R
null Reference sequence file.
--TMP_DIR
[] One or more directories with space available to be used by this program for temporary storage of working files
--USE_JDK_DEFLATER
 -use_jdk_deflater
false Use the JDK Deflater instead of the Intel Deflater for writing compressed output
--USE_JDK_INFLATER
 -use_jdk_inflater
false Use the JDK Inflater instead of the Intel Inflater for reading compressed input
--VALIDATION_STRINGENCY
STRICT Validation stringency for all SAM files read by this program. Setting stringency to SILENT can improve performance when processing a BAM file in which variable-length data (read, qualities, tags) do not otherwise need to be decoded.
--VERBOSITY
INFO Control verbosity of logging.
Advanced Arguments
--showHidden
false display hidden arguments
Deprecated Arguments
--ASSUME_SORTED
 -AS
false If true, assume that the input file is coordinate sorted even if the header says otherwise. Deprecated, used ASSUME_SORT_ORDER=coordinate instead.

Argument details

Arguments in this list are specific to this tool. Keep in mind that other arguments are available that are shared with other tools (e.g. command-line GATK arguments); see Inherited arguments above.


--ADD_PG_TAG_TO_READS / NA

Add PG tag to each read in a SAM or BAM

Boolean  true


--arguments_file / NA

read one or more arguments files and add them to the command line

List[File]  []


--ASSUME_SORT_ORDER / -ASO

If not null, assume that the input file has this order even if the header says otherwise.

Exclusion: This argument cannot be used at the same time as ASSUME_SORTED.

The --ASSUME_SORT_ORDER argument is an enumerated type (SortOrder), which can have one of the following values:

unsorted
queryname
coordinate
duplicate
unknown

SortOrder  null


--ASSUME_SORTED / -AS

If true, assume that the input file is coordinate sorted even if the header says otherwise. Deprecated, used ASSUME_SORT_ORDER=coordinate instead.

Exclusion: This argument cannot be used at the same time as ASSUME_SORT_ORDER, ASO.

boolean  false


--BLOCK_SIZE / NA

The block size for use in the coordinate-sorted record buffer.

int  100000  [ [ -∞  ∞ ] ]


--COMMENT / -CO

Comment(s) to include in the output file's header.

List[String]  []


--COMPRESSION_LEVEL / NA

Compression level for all compressed files created (e.g. BAM and VCF).

int  5  [ [ -∞  ∞ ] ]


--CREATE_INDEX / NA

Whether to create a BAM index when writing a coordinate-sorted BAM file.

Boolean  false


--CREATE_MD5_FILE / NA

Whether to create an MD5 digest for any BAM or FASTQ files created.

boolean  false


--DUPLICATE_SCORING_STRATEGY / -DS

The scoring strategy for choosing the non-duplicate among candidates.

The --DUPLICATE_SCORING_STRATEGY argument is an enumerated type (ScoringStrategy), which can have one of the following values:

SUM_OF_BASE_QUALITIES
TOTAL_MAPPED_REFERENCE_LENGTH
RANDOM

ScoringStrategy  TOTAL_MAPPED_REFERENCE_LENGTH


--GA4GH_CLIENT_SECRETS / NA

Google Genomics API client_secrets.json file path.

String  client_secrets.json


--help / -h

display the help message

boolean  false


--INPUT / -I

One or more input SAM or BAM files to analyze. Must be coordinate sorted.

R List[String]  []


--MAX_OPTICAL_DUPLICATE_SET_SIZE / NA

This number is the maximum size of a set of duplicate reads for which we will attempt to determine which are optical duplicates. Please be aware that if you raise this value too high and do encounter a very large set of duplicate reads, it will severely affect the runtime of this tool. To completely disable this check, set the value to -1.

long  300000  [ [ -∞  ∞ ] ]


--MAX_RECORDS_IN_RAM / NA

When writing files that need to be sorted, this will specify the number of records stored in RAM before spilling to disk. Increasing this number reduces the number of file handles needed to sort the file, and increases the amount of RAM needed.

Integer  500000  [ [ -∞  ∞ ] ]


--METRICS_FILE / -M

File to write duplication metrics to

R File  null


--MINIMUM_DISTANCE / NA

The minimum distance to buffer records to account for clipping on the 5' end of the records. For a given alignment, this parameter controls the width of the window to search for duplicates of that alignment. Due to 5' read clipping, duplicates do not necessarily have the same 5' alignment coordinates, so the algorithm needs to search around the neighborhood. For single end sequencing data, the neighborhood is only determined by the amount of clipping (assuming no split reads), thus setting MINIMUM_DISTANCE to twice the sequencing read length should be sufficient. For paired end sequencing, the neighborhood is also determined by the fragment insert size, so you may want to set MINIMUM_DISTANCE to something like twice the 99.5% percentile of the fragment insert size distribution (see CollectInsertSizeMetrics). Or you can set this number to -1 to use either a) twice the first read's read length, or b) 100, whichever is smaller. Note that the larger the window, the greater the RAM requirements, so you could run into performance limitations if you use a value that is unnecessarily large.

int  -1  [ [ -∞  ∞ ] ]


--OPTICAL_DUPLICATE_PIXEL_DISTANCE / NA

The maximum offset between two duplicate clusters in order to consider them optical duplicates. The default is appropriate for unpatterned versions of the Illumina platform. For the patterned flowcell models, 2500 is moreappropriate. For other platforms and models, users should experiment to find what works best.

int  100  [ [ -∞  ∞ ] ]


--OUTPUT / -O

The output file to write marked records to

R File  null


--PROGRAM_GROUP_COMMAND_LINE / -PG_COMMAND

Value of CL tag of PG record to be created. If not supplied the command line will be detected automatically.

String  null


--PROGRAM_GROUP_NAME / -PG_NAME

Value of PN tag of PG record to be created.

String  MarkDuplicatesWithMateCigar


--PROGRAM_GROUP_VERSION / -PG_VERSION

Value of VN tag of PG record to be created. If not specified, the version will be detected automatically.

String  null


--PROGRAM_RECORD_ID / -PG

The program record ID for the @PG record(s) created by this program. Set to null to disable PG record creation. This string may have a suffix appended to avoid collision with other program record IDs.

String  MarkDuplicates


--QUIET / NA

Whether to suppress job-summary info on System.err.

Boolean  false


--READ_NAME_REGEX / NA

MarkDuplicates can use the tile and cluster positions to estimate the rate of optical duplication in addition to the dominant source of duplication, PCR, to provide a more accurate estimation of library size. By default (with no READ_NAME_REGEX specified), MarkDuplicates will attempt to extract coordinates using a split on ':' (see Note below). Set READ_NAME_REGEX to 'null' to disable optical duplicate detection. Note that without optical duplicate counts, library size estimation will be less accurate. If the read name does not follow a standard Illumina colon-separation convention, but does contain tile and x,y coordinates, a regular expression can be specified to extract three variables: tile/region, x coordinate and y coordinate from a read name. The regular expression must contain three capture groups for the three variables, in order. It must match the entire read name. e.g. if field names were separated by semi-colon (';') this example regex could be specified (?:.*;)?([0-9]+)[^;]*;([0-9]+)[^;]*;([0-9]+)[^;]*$ Note that if no READ_NAME_REGEX is specified, the read name is split on ':'. For 5 element names, the 3rd, 4th and 5th elements are assumed to be tile, x and y values. For 7 element names (CASAVA 1.8), the 5th, 6th, and 7th elements are assumed to be tile, x and y values.

String  


--REFERENCE_SEQUENCE / -R

Reference sequence file.

File  null


--REMOVE_DUPLICATES / NA

If true do not write duplicates to the output file instead of writing them with appropriate flags set.

boolean  false


--showHidden / -showHidden

display hidden arguments

boolean  false


--SKIP_PAIRS_WITH_NO_MATE_CIGAR / NA

Skip record pairs with no mate cigar and include them in the output.

boolean  true


--TMP_DIR / NA

One or more directories with space available to be used by this program for temporary storage of working files

List[File]  []


--USE_JDK_DEFLATER / -use_jdk_deflater

Use the JDK Deflater instead of the Intel Deflater for writing compressed output

Boolean  false


--USE_JDK_INFLATER / -use_jdk_inflater

Use the JDK Inflater instead of the Intel Inflater for reading compressed input

Boolean  false


--VALIDATION_STRINGENCY / NA

Validation stringency for all SAM files read by this program. Setting stringency to SILENT can improve performance when processing a BAM file in which variable-length data (read, qualities, tags) do not otherwise need to be decoded.

The --VALIDATION_STRINGENCY argument is an enumerated type (ValidationStringency), which can have one of the following values:

STRICT
LENIENT
SILENT

ValidationStringency  STRICT


--VERBOSITY / NA

Control verbosity of logging.

The --VERBOSITY argument is an enumerated type (LogLevel), which can have one of the following values:

ERROR
WARNING
INFO
DEBUG

LogLevel  INFO


--version / NA

display the version number for this tool

boolean  false


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