SQUID is designed to detect transcriptomic structural variations from RNA-seq alignment.

To reproduce the result of applying SQUID on simulation data and previously studied cell lines, follow the instructions from squidtest

If you want to skip the installation process, you can find the binary release here!

SQUID requires Boost, GLPK, BamTools. A step by step installation construction can be found here for linux, and here for mac.

On Mac, you need to additionly run the following command to dynamicly linking dependent libraries:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=<bamtools_folder>/lib
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=<glpk_folder>/lib

squid [options] -b <Input_BAM> -o <Output_Prefix>

SQUID supports the following options:

• <Output_Prefix>_sv.txt: a list of predicted TSV in bedpe format. This is the main output of SQUID. All positions in the file are 0-based. Each columns represents:
  • chr1: chromosome name of the first breakpoint.
  • start1: starting position of the segment of the first breakpoint, or the predicted breakpoint position if strand1 is "-".
  • end1: ending position of the segment of the first breakpoint, or the predicted breakpoint position if strand1 is "+".
  • chr2: chromosome name of the second breakpoint.
  • start2: starting position of the segment of the second breakpoint, or the predicted breakpoint position if strand2 is "-".
  • end2: ending position of the segment of the second breakpoint, or the predicted breakpoint position if strand2 is "+".
  • name: TSV is not named yet, this column shows with dot.
  • score: Edge weight, or weighted number of reads supporting this TSV.
  • strand1: strand of the first segment in TSV.
  • strand2: strand of the second segment in TSV. example record:

  17 38135881 38136308 17 38137195 38137773 . 5480 + +

  This means the right end (position 38136308) of segment 38135881-38137195 on chr17 is connected to the right end (position 38137773) of segment 38137195-38137773 also on chr17. And the score of this TSV is 5480.

  5 176370330 176370489 8 128043988 128044089 . 328 - +

  This means the left end (position 176370330) of segment 176370330-176370489 on chr5 is connected with the right end (position 128044089) of segment 128043988-128044089 on chr8.
• <Output_Prefix>_graph.txt: genome segment graph, will be output only if -G is set to 1. It has two types of records, nodes (or segment) and edges.
  • node: for each node, the following information are included. ID, start position, end position, label for connected component.
  • edge: for each edge, the following information are included. ID, node id for the first segment, strand of the first segment, node id for the second segment, strand for the second segment, edge weight.
• <Output_Prefix>_component_pri.txt: ordering of each connected component by ILP, will be output only if -CO is set to 1. In this file, ordering of each connected component will be output into a line. Each segment is represented by its id, with a "-" in the front if the ordering suggests the segment should be using its reverse strand.
• <Output_Prefix>_component.txt: ordering of the entire genome segments, will be output only is -TO is set to 1. In this file, each newly generated chromosome will be output into one line. Other spefications are the same as <Output_Prefix>_component_pri.txt.
• <Output_Prefix>_genome.fa: sequence of rearranged genome sequence, where each chromosome corresponds to one line in <Output_Prefix>_component.txt.

Suppose you have the alignment BAM file, and chimeric BAM file generated by STAR (https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR), run SQUID with:

squid -b alignment.bam -c chimeric.bam -o squidout

Or a combined BAM file of both concordant and discordant alignments generated by BWA (http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/) or SpeedSeq (https://github.com/hall-lab/speedseq), run SQUID with

squid --bwa -b combined_alignment.bam -o squidout

An example can be run be downloading the sample data (sampledata.tgz) from (https://cmu.box.com/s/e9u6alp73rfdhfve2a51p6v391vweodq) into example folder, and decompress it with

tar -xzvf sampledata.tgz

Run SQUID command in example/SQUIDcommand.sh. Or if you want to test the workflow of STAR and SQUID, make sure STAR is in your path, and run bash script example/STARnSQUIDcommand.sh.

cd example
./SQUIDcommand.sh
./STARnSQUIDcommand.sh