The Flux Simulator reads the parameter values from a file which is to be specified from the command line.
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The example carries out a complete simulation pipeline, including simulated expression ("-x" flag), library construction ("-l" flag), and sequencing ("-s" flag). With the "-p" flag a parameter file with the description of the corresponding pipeline is passed to the program. |
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The kind of parameters and values which are required to be set in the file myParameters.sh depend on the desired behavior of the simulation. Most of these parameters have default values, however, the Flux Simulator requires in any case a qualitative annotation of transcripts, i.e., their intron-exon structure described by genomic coordinates in a GTF file. Therefore, a minimal parameter file consists of exclusively the line |
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Note: With exclusively qualitative data about the transcripts--i.e., their genomic location and their mutual overlap--no sequence-specific attributes are taken into account in the simulation; that includes experimental characteristics caused by sequence biases as well as the in silico production of read sequences, which potentially are affected by sequencing errors. |
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If the simulation should produce read sequences, respectively if intermediate steps of the simulation are to take into account sequence-dependent biases, the Flux Simulator program requires to provide the genomic sequences of the chromosomes respectively scaffolds on which the genes have been annotated. |
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$ head -n2 myTranscriptome.gtf 10 EnsEMBL exon 123 456 . + . gene_id="gene1"; transcript_id="transcript1"; 10 EnsEMBL exon 789 1012 . + . gene_id="gene1"; transcript_id="transcript1"; $ ls myGenome 10.fa 12.fa 14.fa 16.fa 18.fa 1.fa 21.fa 2.fa 4.fa 6.fa 8.fa X.fa 11.fa 13.fa 15.fa 17.fa 19.fa 20.fa 22.fa 3.fa 5.fa 7.fa 9.fa Y.fa |
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Let's consider the following parameter file |
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