seq_simul is a DNA storage channel simulation tool.

Clone repo through ssh

git clone ssh://[email protected]/albert-no/seq_simul.git

Install editdistance package

conda install -c conda-forge editdistance

Install seqanpy package for alignment

1. download seqan 2.4.0 (Download_link)
2. unzip the file and export the include folder path
3. download swig and export swig
4. install seqanpy using pip

export SEQAN_INCLUDE_PATH=/PATH/TO/SEQAN/LIBRARY/seqan-library-2.4.0/include
sudo apt install swig
export SWIG=swig
pip install seqanpy

seq_simul is implemented using Python 3.7 and should be installed before running.

pip install -e .

Processing pipeline generates the data for training simulator.

The inputs of the processing pipeline are oligo text file (oligos.txt) which contains the oligo (encoded data) and FASTQ file (.fastq) which contains the read and quality-score. The output of the processing pipeine is data files. The data file stores the matching result. Each matching result corresponds to 5 lines in data file.

• read from fastq
• qscore (that corresponds to read)
• matched oligo
• edit-distance between the read and the oligo
• index of matched oligo

The processing pipeline does the following:

1. Convert FASTQ file into reads file (extract reads and qscores from FASTQ file)
2. Split reads file (split read files into subread files)
3. Find edit distance and quality value between split files and oligo text file
4. Save results in data file
5. Separate data files into train-set and test-set under the defined proportion
6. Separate data files in train-set and test-set through edit-distance (0 edit-distance & defined edit-distance range)
7. Modify and save the data file which is saved in non-zero edit-distance folder into three errors data files (insertion, deletion, substitution data file)

To run the processing.py, parameters in main have to be modified appropriately.

1. path is a path to FASTQ (.fastq) and oligo text (.txt) file
2. fname is a name of FASTQ and oligo text file. For example, fname=constraint implies that FASTQ file name is constraint.fastq and oligo text file name is constraint.txt.
3. edit_distance_limit is a maximum allowable edit-distance between the read and the matched oligo.
4. split_num is a number of read which is saved in single reads file.

Then, run processing.py at root to generate data files.

Parameters of get_train_test_set.py need to be modified as personal use.

1. folder_path is a path of matched dataset.
2. division_ratio is a division proportion of the train-set and test-set. (if division_ratio=0.8, it return 80% of train-set and 20% of test-set)

Run get_train_test_set.py returns the proportionally divided train and test folder.

To customize parameters of trim_and_split.py as follows. It trims the length of the sequences and save separately within edit distance. Also, split data into three errors(insertion, substitution, deletion). Trimmed data are saved in the train, test folders, and error contained data are saved in insertion, deletion, substitution folders which are generated in the train and test folders. Additionally, for the profile vector that is essential for simulation, proportions of the errors are saved as a log file named data_proportions.log.

1. folder_path is a path of matched data.
2. min_edit_distance & max_edit_distance are the range of the edit distance to save separately from zero edit distance.
3. limit_length is the maximum length of the sequence to save.

Run trim_and_split.py

Basically, simulator is composed of three read generator(insertion, substitution, deletion), and qscore generator. GANs are trained with GRU generator and 1D-CNN discriminator, except substitution which is trained with Transformer generator. The training pipeline trains multiple models based on arguments.

Model parameters such as number of layer in the Generator (G_num_layer) and the Discriminator (D_num_layer), and the size of hidden layer of the Generator (G_hidden_size) and Discriminator (D_hidden_size) can be tuned. For transformer generator, number of head (G_num_head) and positional drop out (pos_drop_prob) also can be tuned. Training parameters such as critic (G_critic), lambda(lambda_gp) for WGAN and learning rate for the Generator (G_lr) and Discriminator (D_lr), decaying parameter for ADAM optimizer (b1, b2) can be tuned as well. Detailed and defaulted arguments are at seq_simul/data/default_args.json.

There are two types of parameters:

1. fixed parameters that are fixed during the parameter sweep.
2. iterating parameters that varies over training.

Fixed parameters are set via fixed_dict in read_sweep.py where keys are name of fixed parameters and values are corresponding fixed values. Iterating parameters are set via iter_dict where keys are iterating parameter and values are list of values Then, read_sweep.py runs wrapper which is defined in seq_simul/train/wrapper.py which trains the models for all possible combinations of iterating parameters. Importatly, read_only: True and qscore_only: False should be stated in fixed_dict.

After setting parameters, run read_sweep.py with parameters to run the training pipeline.

python read_sweep.py

Qscore-Generator also has fixed_dict for fixed parameters, and iter_dict for iterating parameters. Set those dictionaries accordingly, then run qscore_sweep.py which runs wrapper in seq/simul/train/wrapper.py. It trains the models for all possible combinations of iterating parameters. Importatly, read_only: False and qscore_only: True should be stated in fixed_dict.

After setting parameters, run qscore_sweep.py with parameters to run the training pipeline.

python qscore_sweep.py

Simulator is composed of read-simulator and qscore-simulator. Read-simulator also composed of insertion-generator, substitution-generator, and deletion-generator. Based on profile-vector that saved in error_proportion.log, the input oligo enters the multiple or single generator among three generators. Qscore-simulator gets the result of read-simulator as input and generate quality score sequences.

1. The input of the read-simulator is .txt oligo file, and outputs the .data file.
2. The input of the qscore-simulator is .data file, and outputs the .fastq file or .data file.

Your output will be a .fastq file when using qscore simulator with mode=qscore_fastq. The format from top to bottom:

1. index
2. read sequence (simulated read)
3. +
4. quality score (generated qscore)

Your output will be a .data file when using qscore simualtor with mode=qscore_data

1. index
2. read sequence (simulated read)
3. +
4. quality score (generated qscore)
5. oligo

Some parameters are modified before simulating sequences. Otherwise, model parameters are loaded from json files.

1. error_proportion_file : path of the error proportion log file
2. simulation_fname : path of input data
3. simulated_result_path : name of file saved in results/simulations/
4. ins/sub/del/qscore_simulation_folder : path of folder of trained insertion, substitution, deletion and qscore
5. ins/sub/del/qscore_simulation_fname : file name of trained insertion, substitution, deletion and qscore
6. ins/sub/del/qscore_epoch_list : epochs for generating sequences

The above process is implemented in seq_simul/simulator/seq_simulator.py, run simulator.py to get the result.

python simulator.py

The result of simulation and the real expriment can be compared via statitstics tool.

There are 2 ways to analyze statistics.

• plot proportion of each index errors : all, insertion, substitution, deletion
• number of errors : all, insertion, substitution, deletion
• number of different base pair : insertion, substitution, deletion
• number of consecutive dashes : insertion, deletion
• plot consecutive dashes : insertion, deletion

• plot positional mean of quality scores.
• plot the distribution of error(insertion, substitution) occurred quality score.

1. mode : select mode for analyzing (all|read|qscore)
2. error_name : error name to get statistics with 4-options(all|insertion|deletion|substitution).
3. original_data_path : folder path of real .data file
4. original_fname : file name of real .data
5. generated_result_path : folder path of generated file
6. generated_fname : file name of generated file (.data or .fastq)
7. read_padded_length : sequence length with pad to load reads.
8. qscore_padded_length : sequence length with pad to load quality scores.

python stats.py returns the designated statistics and results are save at results/statistics/

python stat.py

Following direction, test the end-to-end example with mini dataset(/test_constraint).

1. Processing data

python processing.py --path=seq_simul/data/test_constraint/ --fname=test_constraint --split_num=25 --convert_fastq=True

2. Get train and test dataset

python get_train_test_set.py --folder_path=seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data/ --division_ratio=0.8

3. Get only error contained data and customized edit-distance data

python trim_and_split.py --folder_path=seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data --limit_length=145

4. Train read-GAN (insertion|substitution|deletion) Customize fixed and iterative dictionary in read_sweep.py insertion data_path : seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data/train/edit_1_5/insertion/ substitution data_path : seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data/train/edit_1_5/substitution/ deletion data_path : seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data/train/edit_1_5/deletion/

python read_sweep.py

5. Train qscore-GAN (errorness|error-free) Customize fixed and iterative dictionary in qscore_sweep.py errorness quality score data_path : seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data/train/edit_1_5/ error-free quality score data_path : seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data/train/edit_0/

python qscore_sweep.py

6. Simulate with trained read-generator and qscore-generator (need json and pth file) and designate multiple epochs for simulating

python simulator.py --mode=read
--error_proportion_file=seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/error_proportion.log
--simulation_fname=seq_simul/data/test_constraint/test_constraint/data/test/edit_1_5/test_test_constraint_split_aa.data
--simulated_result_fname=read_simulated
--ins_simulation_folder=results/MMDDhhmm_sweep/trained_parameters
--sub_simulation_folder=results/MMDDhhmm_sweep/trained_parameters
--del_simulation_folder=results/MMDDhhmm_sweep/trained_parameters
--ins_simulation_fname=MMDDhhmm_{param}
--sub_simulation_fname=MMDDhhmm_{param}
--del_simulation_fname=MMDDhhmm_{param}
--ins_epoch_list n1 n2 n3 ..
--sub_epoch_list n1 n2 n3 ..
--del_epoch_list n1 n2 n3 ..

python simulator.py --mode=qscore_fastq
--simulation_fname=results/simulations/read_simulated.data
--simulated_result_fname=qscore_simulated
--qscore_simulation_folder=results/MMDDhhmm_sweep/trained_parameters
--qscore_simulation_fname=MMDDhhmm_{param}
--qscore_epoch_list n1 n2 n3 ...

7. get statistics with simulated data file

python stats.py --mode=all (or read|qscore) 
		--error_name=all (or insertion|deletion|substitution)
		--generated_result_path=results/
		--generated_fname=simulated.data

User can simulate sequences using parameter of pre-trained generators.(at the folder named pre-trained_parameters)

python simulator.py --mode=read
		    --ins_simulation_folder=pre-trained_parameters
		    --sub_simulation_folder=pre-trained_parameters
		    --del_simulation_folder=pre-trained_parameters
		    --ins_simulation_fname=insertion
		    --sub_simulation_fname=substitution
		    --del_simulation_fname=deletion
		    --ins_epoch_list 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
		    --sub_epoch_list 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
		    --del_epoch_list 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

python simulator.py --mode=qscore_fastq
		    --qscore_simulation_errorfree_folder=pre-trained_parameters
		    --qscore_simulation_errorfree_fname=errorfree
		    --qscore_errorfree_epoch_list 0
		    --qscore_simulation_errorness_folder=pre-trained_parameters
		    --qscore_simulation_errorness_fname=errorness
		    --qscore_errorness_epoch_list 0
		    --simulation_fname=results/simulations/simulated.data

To run the unittest, use the following command at root.

python -m unittest