Bioinformatic pipeline: Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota

This data-set describes the full bioinformatic pipeline used to analyze 54 metagenomic samples of the honey bee gut microbiota. Each sample was isolated from an individual honey bee, and all samples originate from two colonies of the Engel laboratory at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. The full raw data-set is available from the sequence-read archive: SRP150166.

A publication based on this analysis is currently under review, with the title: "Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota", and an upload to Biorxiv is also underway.

The data-set contains tar-balls for the different main workflows of the analysis. Dowload and unpack to view the contents (tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz). For each workflow, all directories contain README.txt files, describing the contents of the directory. Due to size constraints, some intermediate files have been omitted, and some workflows are demonstrated for a subset of the data. However, the full analysis can be reproduced from the raw data, using the provided scripts.

Scripts are included within workflow directories, and are also provided as a separate tar-ball for convenience. All perl-scripts come with documentation, which can be viewed by typing: "perl script_name.pl -h". For R scripts, the usage is indicated as a comment in the top lines of each script. Note that many of the scripts require specific input-files to be present in the run-directory. Their usage is demonstrated within the workflow directories in bash-scripts (*.sh). Commands used for generating plots and some statistics are given within workflow directories in text-files "R.commands" when applicable.

Aside from custom code, the pipeline also utilizes various open-source Software packages, which are detailed in the file "software_dependencies.txt". Note, while many of the scripts will run fast on any computer, some steps of the pipeline are computationally demanding, and will require significant computing time, as well as storage space. When scripts are known to be time-consuming, this is indicated in the script help message.