Time to include some extra species

[markziemann]

6th FEB 2020	no. SRX
Arabidopsis thaliana	30890
Zea mays	19753
Oryza sativa	9737
Triticum aestivum	6924
Solanum lycopersicum	6444
Sorghum bicolor	4646
Glycine max	3889
Populus trichocarpa	3485
Vitis vinifera	3258
Panicum virgatum	2338
Hordeum vulgare	2284
Solanum tuberosum	1851
Brachypodium distachyon	1814

18th FEB 2020	no. SRX
Schizosaccharomyces pombe	4718
Plasmodium falciparum	4298

[markziemann]

Macaca mulatta Bos Taurus Sus scrofa Gallus gallus Ovis aries

[wdlingit]

Thank you for providing this DEE2 database. I have been using it for quite a while. Some short questions:

1. Is this idea of adding species ongoing?
2. In case that this is ongoing, any specific genome assembly/annotation versions been used?

My colleagues would be interested in rice and maize. Just tested the singularity solution and it seems that we can run the pipeline by ourselves. In case that some genome assembly/annotation versions for rice and maize have been adopted by DEE2, we would like to consider following them and maybe share the computation results.

[markziemann]

Hi @wdlingit, we have been unsuccessfully seeking funding to support the expansion of DEE2 in particular with the backlog of mouse and human studies and the possibility of updating to the latest reference genome build. That said, I think we can work together to get rice and maize included. I will do the necessary work to modify the pipeline to include rice and maize data and then update the web server side of things. If you could do the data processing at your institution, it would help expedite things along. I'm not sure about an exact timeline, but I might have things ready to start data processing by end of August.

[wdlingit]

Thank you for the reply. We collected SRR accessions with NCBI Taxonomy ID 39947 plus some minor restriction. Our current SRR list to be processed is about 7K SRRs. This is smaller than what you listed a few years ago. I think this is reasonable because Tax ID 39947 is for Oryza sativa Japonica Group, a subspecies(?) of rice. Oryza sativa Japonica Group is also available in ensembl plants ( https://plants.ensembl.org/Oryza_sativa/Info/Index ) We just started (2 hours ago) a test run of 1000 SRRs and things seem OK to me. In order to make sure things are coordinated, I listed info we applied in the volunteer_pipeline.sh script:

elif [ $ORG == "osativa" ] ; then
  GTFURL="ftp://ftp.ensemblgenomes.ebi.ac.uk/pub/plants/release-59/gtf/oryza_sativa/Oryza_sativa.IRGSP-1.0.59.gtf.gz"
  GDNAURL="ftp://ftp.ensemblgenomes.ebi.ac.uk/pub/plants/release-59/fasta/oryza_sativa/dna/Oryza_sativa.IRGSP-1.0.dna_sm.toplevel.fa.gz"
  CDNAURL="ftp://ftp.ensemblgenomes.ebi.ac.uk/pub/plants/release-59/fasta/oryza_sativa/cdna/Oryza_sativa.IRGSP-1.0.cdna.all.fa.gz"
  BT2_MD5="05eb69ae1d8b8b0d2cc06e890bf55dc6"
  KAL_MD5="6f618eda89e9b057c99d4d7580c5858d"
  STAR_MD5="b374bef1756a1ea105c968d68c71127e"