updog

Updog provides a suite of methods for genotyping polyploids from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. It does this while accounting for many common features of NGS data: allele bias, overdispersion, sequencing error, and (possibly) outlying observations. It is named updog for “Using Parental Data for Offspring Genotyping” because we originally developed the method for full-sib populations, but it works now for more general populations. The method is described in detail Gerard et. al. (2018) <doi:10.1534/genetics.118.301468>. Additional details concerning prior specification are described in Gerard and Ferrão (2019) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz852>.

The main function is flexdog(), which provides many options for the distribution of the genotypes in your sample. Novel genotype distributions include the class of proportional normal distributions (model = "norm") and the class of discrete unimodal distributions (model = "ash"). The default is model = "norm" because it is the most robust to varying genotype distributions, but feel free to use more specialized priors if you have more information on the data.

multidog() is a convenience function that let’s you run flexdog() over many SNP’s. It has support for parallel computing.

Also provided are:

• An experimental function mupdog(), which allows for correlation between the individuals’ genotypes while jointly estimating the genotypes of the individuals at all provided SNPs. The implementation uses a variational approximation. This is designed for samples where the individuals share a complex relatedness structure (e.g. siblings, cousins, uncles, half-siblings, etc). Right now there are no guarantees about this function’s performance.
• Functions to simulate genotypes (rgeno()) and read-counts (rflexdog()). These support all of the models available in flexdog().
• Functions to evaluate oracle genotyping performance: oracle_joint(), oracle_mis(), oracle_mis_vec(), and oracle_cor(). We mean “oracle” in the sense that we assume that the entire data generation process is known (i.e. the genotype distribution, sequencing error rate, allele bias, and overdispersion are all known). These are good approximations when there are a lot of individuals (but not necessarily large read-depth).

The original updog package is now named updogAlpha and may be found here.

See also ebg, fitPoly, and TET, and polyRAD. Our best “competitor” is probably fitPoly, though polyRAD has some nice ideas for utilizing population structure and linkage disequilibrium.

See NEWS for the latest updates on the package.

Vignettes

I’ve included many vignettes in updog, which you can access online here.

Bug Reports

If you find a bug or want an enhancement, please submit an issue here.

Installation

You can install updog from CRAN in the usual way:

install.packages("updog")

You can install the current (unstable) version of updog from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dcgerard/updog")

How to Cite

Please cite

Gerard, D., Ferrão, L. F. V., Garcia, A. A. F., & Stephens, M. (2018). Genotyping Polyploids from Messy Sequencing Data. Genetics, 210(3), 789-807. doi: 10.1534/genetics.118.301468.

Or, using BibTex:

@article {gerard2018genotyping,
    author = {Gerard, David and Ferr{\~a}o, Lu{\'i}s Felipe Ventorim and Garcia, Antonio Augusto Franco and Stephens, Matthew},
    title = {Genotyping Polyploids from Messy Sequencing Data},
    volume = {210},
    number = {3},
    pages = {789--807},
    year = {2018},
    doi = {10.1534/genetics.118.301468},
    publisher = {Genetics},
    issn = {0016-6731},
    URL = {https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301468},
    journal = {Genetics}
}

If you are using the proportional normal prior class (model = "norm") or the unimodal prior class (model = "ash"), then please also cite

Gerard, D. & Ferrão L. F. V. (2019). “Priors for Genotyping Polyploids.” Bioinformatics (in press). doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz852

Or, using BibTex:

@article{gerard2019priors,
    author = {Gerard, David and Ferr{\~a}o, Lu{\'i}s Felipe Ventorim},
    title = {Priors for Genotyping Polyploids},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    year = {2019},
    month = {11},
    issn = {1367-4803},
    doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btz852},
    note = {btz852},
}

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.