# ── Subset full HCC1143 BAMs to chr17 for pipeline development ─────────────── # Input: full WES BAMs (wherever you downloaded them) # Output: hcc1143_T_clean.bam / hcc1143_N_clean.bam (chr17 only) # # Why chr17: TP53 is on chr17 — the known HCC1143 driver mutation # we use as our validated anchor epitope. Subsetting to chr17 keeps # the test data small (~50MB vs ~23GB) while retaining the mutation # we actually care about. # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── TUMOR_FULL=~/melanoma-pipeline/data/full/hcc1143_T_clean.bam NORMAL_FULL=~/melanoma-pipeline/data/full/hcc1143_N_clean.bam OUT=~/melanoma-pipeline/data/test mkdir -p $OUT # Subset tumor to chr17 # -b: output BAM format, -h: include header, -@ 8: 8 threads samtools view \ -b \ -h \ -@ 8 \ $TUMOR_FULL \ chr17 \ -o $OUT/tumor_chr17.bam # Index tumor subset samtools index \ -@ 8 \ $OUT/tumor_chr17.bam \ $OUT/tumor_chr17.bai # Subset normal to chr17 samtools view \ -b \ -h \ -@ 8 \ $NORMAL_FULL \ chr17 \ -o $OUT/normal_chr17.bam # Index normal subset samtools index \ -@ 8 \ $OUT/normal_chr17.bam \ $OUT/normal_chr17.bai # Verify read counts echo "Tumor chr17 reads:" samtools flagstat $OUT/tumor_chr17.bam echo "Normal chr17 reads:" samtools flagstat $OUT/normal_chr17.bam # ── Extract HLA reads from normal BAM for OptiType ─────────────────────────── # Always use normal BAM for HLA typing — tumor DNA can have LOH # (Loss of Heterozygosity) at HLA loci which gives wrong alleles. # # Three-bucket strategy to avoid missing HLA reads due to ALT contigs: # Bucket 1 — primary MHC region on chr6 # Bucket 2 — ALT contigs (reads that overflowed from primary chr6 assembly) # Bucket 3 — unmapped reads (too divergent to map anywhere in hg38) # All three are merged and remapped against OptiType's HLA-specific reference. # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── OUT_HLA=~/melanoma-pipeline/data/hla mkdir -p $OUT_HLA # Bucket 1 — primary MHC region on chr6 # 28510120-33480577 = full MHC locus including HLA-A, B, C and flanking genes samtools view \ -b \ -h \ -@ 8 \ $NORMAL_FULL \ chr6:28510120-33480577 \ -o $OUT_HLA/hla_chr6_primary.bam # Bucket 2 — ALT contigs # Reads from patients with HLA alleles too divergent for the primary reference # — most common in non-European populations. Dynamically finds all ALT/HLA # contigs in the BAM header so this works regardless of hg38 build variant. ALT_CONTIGS=$(samtools view -H $NORMAL_FULL \ | grep "^@SQ" \ | grep -iE "_alt|HLA" \ | awk '{print $2}' \ | sed 's/SN://') if [ -n "$ALT_CONTIGS" ]; then ALT_TMP=$(mktemp -d) while IFS= read -r contig; do safe_name="${contig//\//_}" samtools view -b -h -@ 8 $NORMAL_FULL "$contig" -o "$ALT_TMP/${safe_name}.bam" done <<< "$ALT_CONTIGS" samtools merge -f -@ 8 $OUT_HLA/hla_alt_contigs.bam "$ALT_TMP"/*.bam rm -rf "$ALT_TMP" else # No ALT contigs — create an empty BAM so downstream merge still works samtools view -b -h $NORMAL_FULL -o $OUT_HLA/hla_alt_contigs.bam /dev/null 2>/dev/null || \ samtools view -H $NORMAL_FULL -b -o $OUT_HLA/hla_alt_contigs.bam fi # Bucket 3 — unmapped reads # Small fraction of BAM but catches rare/unusual alleles that couldn't # map anywhere in hg38 due to extreme divergence from the reference # -f 4: flag 4 = read unmapped samtools view \ -b \ -f 4 \ -@ 8 \ $NORMAL_FULL \ -o $OUT_HLA/hla_unmapped.bam # Merge all three buckets into one candidate pool samtools merge \ -f \ -@ 8 \ $OUT_HLA/hla_candidates.bam \ $OUT_HLA/hla_chr6_primary.bam \ $OUT_HLA/hla_alt_contigs.bam \ $OUT_HLA/hla_unmapped.bam # Convert merged BAM to paired FASTQ for remapping # Sort by name first (-n) so read pairs are adjacent samtools sort -n -@ 8 $OUT_HLA/hla_candidates.bam \ | samtools fastq \ -1 $OUT_HLA/hla_candidates_R1.fastq \ -2 $OUT_HLA/hla_candidates_R2.fastq \ -0 /dev/null \ -s /dev/null # Remap against OptiType's HLA-specific reference # This is the critical step — reads that were on ALT contigs or unmapped # now find their correct HLA allele sequence. The HLA reference contains # sequences for thousands of known alleles across all populations. # hla_reference_dna.fasta is bundled inside the fred2/optitype Docker image # at /usr/local/bin/data/hla_reference_dna.fasta # Extract it once and reuse: # docker run --rm fred2/optitype cat /usr/local/bin/data/hla_reference_dna.fasta \ # > ~/melanoma-pipeline/reference/hla_reference_dna.fasta HLA_REF=~/melanoma-pipeline/reference/hla_reference_dna.fasta # Index HLA reference if not already done if [ ! -f "${HLA_REF}.bwt" ]; then echo "Indexing HLA reference..." bwa index $HLA_REF fi bwa mem \ -t 8 \ $HLA_REF \ $OUT_HLA/hla_candidates_R1.fastq \ $OUT_HLA/hla_candidates_R2.fastq \ | samtools sort -n -@ 8 \ | samtools fastq \ -F 4 \ -1 $OUT_HLA/hla_fished_R1.fastq \ -2 $OUT_HLA/hla_fished_R2.fastq \ -0 /dev/null \ -s /dev/null # hla_fished_R1/R2.fastq are now ready to pass to OptiType (Step 3 of the pipeline) echo "HLA read extraction complete." echo "Fished read pairs: $(( $(wc -l < $OUT_HLA/hla_fished_R1.fastq) / 4 ))" echo "Ready for OptiType: $OUT_HLA/hla_fished_R1.fastq + hla_fished_R2.fastq"