README.md
In stephenturner/om..bcftools: Outsider module for running bcftools

Run `bcftools` with `outsider` in R

This module allows you to run bcftools in R via Docker. See the full bcftools documentation for more information.

# install.packages("outsider")
library(outsider)
module_install(repo = "stephenturner/om..bcftools")

After installing the bcftools outsider module, import the bcftools(), bgzip(), and tabix() functions into your global environment.

library(outsider)
bcftools <- module_import(fname = 'bcftools', repo = "stephenturner/om..bcftools")
bgzip <- module_import(fname = 'bgzip', repo = "stephenturner/om..bcftools")
tabix <- module_import(fname = 'tabix', repo = "stephenturner/om..bcftools")

If you’d like, copy an example VCF file from the package to your current working directory to work with.

file.copy(from=system.file("extdata", "example.vcf", package = "om..bcftools"), to=".")

Take a look at it:

bcftools("view", "example.vcf")

##fileformat=VCFv4.0
##FILTER=<ID=PASS,Description="All filters passed">
##source=vcfrandom
##reference=/d2/data/references/build_37/human_reference_v37.fa
##phasing=none
##INFO=<ID=NS,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Number of samples with data">
##INFO=<ID=DP,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Total read depth at the locus">
##INFO=<ID=AC,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Total number of alternate alleles in called genotypes">
##INFO=<ID=AN,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Total number of alleles in called genotypes">
##INFO=<ID=AF,Number=1,Type=Float,Description="Estimated allele frequency in the range (0,1]">
##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype">
##FORMAT=<ID=GQ,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Genotype Quality, the Phred-scaled marginal (or unconditional) probability of the called genotype">
##FORMAT=<ID=DP,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Read Depth">
##contig=<ID=1>
##contig=<ID=2>
##bcftools_concatVersion=1.12+htslib-1.12
##bcftools_concatCommand=concat 1.vcf.gz 2.vcf.gz; Date=Fri Nov 12 09:06:27 2021
##bcftools_viewVersion=1.12+htslib-1.12
##bcftools_viewCommand=view -Oz -o example.vcf.gz; Date=Fri Nov 12 09:06:27 2021
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  example
1   1   .   A   C,G 100 .   DP=65   GT:DP   0/1:12
1   2   .   G   A,G 100 .   DP=41   GT:DP   0/1:77
1   3   .   T   T,G 100 .   DP=36   GT:DP   0/1:65
1   4   .   C   T,A 100 .   DP=0    GT:DP   0/1:77
1   5   .   T   T,C 100 .   DP=92   GT:DP   0/1:6
1   6   .   T   G,A 100 .   DP=57   GT:DP   0/1:7
1   7   .   G   C,T 100 .   DP=32   GT:DP   0/1:16
1   8   .   C   A,A 100 .   DP=94   GT:DP   0/1:76
1   9   .   A   T,A 100 .   DP=78   GT:DP   0/1:64
2   1   .   C   A,G 100 .   DP=10   GT:DP   0/1:21
2   2   .   C   G,A 100 .   DP=61   GT:DP   0/1:87
2   3   .   C   T,A 100 .   DP=20   GT:DP   0/1:0
2   4   .   A   G,G 100 .   DP=47   GT:DP   0/1:37
2   5   .   G   T,T 100 .   DP=49   GT:DP   0/1:71
2   6   .   A   C,G 100 .   DP=52   GT:DP   0/1:94
2   7   .   A   A,T 100 .   DP=74   GT:DP   0/1:78
2   8   .   T   A,A 100 .   DP=48   GT:DP   0/1:87
2   9   .   A   G,A 100 .   DP=3    GT:DP   0/1:48

Compress and tabix index it:

bgzip("example.vcf")
tabix("example.vcf.gz")

Query just chromosome 2 to get chromosome, position, ref, alternate alleles, and the genotype, in a tab delimited output.

bcftools("query", "-r 2", "-f '%CHROM\\t%POS\\t%REF\\t%ALT\\t[%TGT]\\n'", "example.vcf.gz")

2   1   C   A,G C/A
2   2   C   G,A C/G
2   3   C   T,A C/T
2   4   A   G,G A/G
2   5   G   T,T G/T
2   6   A   C,G A/C
2   7   A   A,T A/A
2   8   T   A,A T/A
2   9   A   G,A A/G

Add an output_file=<filename> to write it to file:

bcftools("query", "-r 2", "-f '%CHROM\\t%POS\\t%REF\\t%ALT\\t[%TGT]\\n'", "example.vcf.gz", output_file="example.vcf.query.tsv")

Read it back in:

read.table("example.vcf.query.tsv")

  V1 V2 V3  V4  V5
1  2  1  C A,G C/A
2  2  2  C G,A C/G
3  2  3  C T,A C/T
4  2  4  A G,G A/G
5  2  5  G T,T G/T
6  2  6  A C,G A/C
7  2  7  A A,T A/A
8  2  8  T A,A T/A
9  2  9  A G,A A/G

Plugins work too!

bcftools("plugin --list-plugins")

GTisec
GTsubset
ad-bias
add-variantkey
af-dist
allele-length
check-ploidy
check-sparsity
color-chrs
contrast
counts
dosage
fill-AN-AC
fill-from-fasta
fill-tags
fixploidy
fixref
frameshifts
guess-ploidy
gvcfz
impute-info
indel-stats
isecGT
mendelian
missing2ref
parental-origin
prune
remove-overlaps
scatter
setGT
smpl-stats
split
split-vep
tag2tag
trio-dnm2
trio-stats
trio-switch-rate
variantkey-hex

Clean up:

file.remove(c("example.vcf", "example.vcf.gz", "example.vcf.gz.tbi", "example.vcf.query.tsv"))

Find out more by visiting the bcftools’s manual page.

Turner, S.D. (2021). Bcftools outsider module. https://github.com/stephenturner/om..bcftools.
Bennett et al., (2020). outsider: Install and run programs, outside of R, inside of R. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(45), 2038, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02038
Danecek, Petr, et al. “Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools.” Gigascience 10.2 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab008.