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  • Tophat2 and hg19 - fail to generate fasta from indexes

    Hi!

    I just wanted to do a test run with Tophat2 but it appears more difficult than anticipated...
    So I installed SAMtools and Bowtie2 in the required versions and then used the "make_hg19.sh" script from Bowtie to get the hg19 indexes. So far so good. But now when I run Tophat2 I get this:

    Code:
    tophat2 /usr/bin/bowtie2-2.2.2/indexes/hg19 FASTQ11_1.fq FASTQ12_2.fq 
    
    [2014-05-23 09:56:35] Beginning TopHat run (v2.0.11)
    -----------------------------------------------
    [2014-05-23 09:56:35] Checking for Bowtie
    		  Bowtie version:	 2.2.2.0
    [2014-05-23 09:56:35] Checking for Samtools
    		Samtools version:	 0.1.18.0
    [2014-05-23 09:56:35] Checking for Bowtie index files (genome)..
    [2014-05-23 09:56:35] Checking for reference FASTA file
    	Warning: Could not find FASTA file /usr/bin/bowtie2-2.2.2/indexes/hg19.fa
    [2014-05-23 09:56:35] Reconstituting reference FASTA file from Bowtie index
      Executing: /usr/bin/bowtie2-2.2.2/bowtie2-inspect /usr/bin/bowtie2-2.2.2/indexes/hg19 > ./tophat_out/tmp/hg19.fa
    	[FAILED]
    Error: bowtie-inspect returned an error
    bowtie-inspect: reference.cpp:471: int BitPairReference::getStretch(uint32_t*, size_t, size_t, size_t, SStringExpandable<unsigned int, 1024, 2>&) const: Assertion `0' failed.
    So it doesn't recognize the fasta files in that folder. Possibly because these are by chromosome and do not carry the same name as the index files. Eitherway Tophat2 should be able to reconstruct the fasta file from the index. Can anyone tell me where I went wrong?

  • #2
    Generally you would want to concetenate the chromosome files into a single "genome" fasta and then build indexes from that. Indexes consist of several files and it is conventional that they get the same "base name" as the genome file. (i.e. if your genome file was hg19.fa then the index files would have hg19.* prefix.)

    If you are using standard Hg19 genome then there is no need to build the indexes/fasta file yourself. You can download an archive with these files (and more) along with the annotations from the iGenomes page: http://support.illumina.com/sequenci...e/igenome.ilmn

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    • #3
      Is there a hg19.fa file in the folder where the bowtie index files have been created? Because this is required by bowtie. If you have it somewhere else, create a symlink in the folder to its location (from within the bowtie index directory: ln -s /path/to/hg19.fa ./hg19.fa). If you have the individual chromosomes as separate fasta file, combine in a single file using "cat ./* > ./hg19.fa" from within a folder where only your chromsome-fastas are in.

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