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PileLine (Pileup pipeLine) is a flexible command-line toolkit for efficient handling, filtering, and comparison of locus text files produced by next-generation sequencing experiments (i.e. pileup files from SAMtools). PileLine is designed to be memory efficient by performing on-disk operations over sorted locus files directly.

PileLine is available for downloading at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pileline

Main Features

1. Filtering and comparison of locus text files.
2. Full annotation of locus files with human dbSNP, HGNC Gene Symbol and Ensembl IDs. Custom annotations are also allowed and may be supplied through standard .BED or .GFF files.
3. SIFT and PolyPhen-2 compatible outputs to facilitate the biological interpretation of huge lists of variants.
4. Genotyping quality control functionality for estimating performance metrics (Harismendi et al. 2009) on detecting homo/heterozigote variants against a given gold standard genotype.

PileLine Commands

Processing Commands

• pileline-fastseek.sh

Prints a given range of a locus file:

i.e. pileline-fastseek.sh –p <locus_file.txt> -s chr10:100:10000

• pileline-fastsjoin.sh

Joins two positional files:

i.e. XXXXX

• pileline-rfilter.sh

Filters (or annotates) a positional file with range-based annotations (in bed format). Each position that is inside of a specific range is annotated.

i.e. pileline-rfilter –A <locus_file.txt> –i <targets.bed> –o <out.txt>

i.e. pileline-rfilter --annotate –A <locus_file.tx> –i <annotations.bed> –o <out.txt>

• pileline-genindex.sh

Indexes fasta genome and then can perform range based queries in that genome.

i.e. pileline-genindex –-index –g <fasta> -i <new_index>

i.e. pileline-genindex --seek –i <index> -s chr1:1000:2000

Analysis Commands

• pileline-2smc.sh

Looks for discrepancies in genotypes of two samples (i.e.: case vs control). It also can annotate each output position with a given positional file containing custom annotations (i.e. dbSNP). Also produces a SIFT and PolyPhen-2 compatible outfiles.

• pileline-nsmc.sh

Takes the output of several 2smc comparisons commands to reports where variants are reproduced.

• pileline-genotest.sh

Calculates the NGS performance on genotyping, surveying a set of genomic positions whose genotype is known in the sample.

Use Cases

PileLine coupled to SAMtools