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The bioinformatics app: Powerful and Easy-to-use.

Create your own ultra-fast, cloud-based pipeline in seconds. Use defaults or define specific parameters. It's your choice!

Preprocessing | Alignment & Mapping | Variant Calling & Discovery | Annotations | Interpretations | Conversions

Meet EvE, the first universal genetic adaptor that aligns, calls, annotates, converts and interprets almost any genetic data file to EvErything. EvE includes a straightforward user interface and powerful, dynamic multithreaded processing so that using your custom EvE pipeline is effortless and fast.

 

With EvE Premium, you can create your own ultra-fast custom pipeline within seconds. For example, you can select Isaac for alignment and Strelka for variant calling. Or you can select CutAdapt for pre-processing, BowTie2 for alignment, SamTools for variant calling, SnpEff for annotation and ClinVar for interpretation with the output format being a TXT file in 23andMe format.

Once you select your pipeline, you can use defaults or easily modify almost any parameter. EvE Premium will then run your pipeline using powerful multithreaded cluster cloud-based processing.

You no longer have to worry about whether your computer hardware and servers are powerful enough to process your data. With EvE, you also don't have to worry about bandwidth charges or obscure cloud computing fees. All you need is an internet connection (such as from a laptop or mobile device) and EvE will process your genetic data.

 

New in EvE Premium v4: ClinVar!

Turn on the ClinVar option (located under 'Interpretation') to obtain downloadable ClinVar results.

$19.99 per use

There are three editions of EvE:

1. EvE Free

• Price: Free
• Provides limited functionality.

2. EvE Premium (this app)

• Price: $19.99/use
• All of the features of EvE and:
  • Incredible speed
    • Premium utilizes dedicated multithreaded cluster cloud computing technology to significantly speed up processing so you receive results in a fraction of the time.
  • Interpretation
    • Premium includes the option for interpretation of human genetic data including identification of pathologic variants.
• Example: converting a whole genome 100GB FASTQ file to VCF using Strelka or SamTools can take several days or more but with EvE Premium the conversion time is only several hours.

3. EvE Premium Batch

• Price: $399/use
• All the features of EvE Premium and
  • batch processing
    • Premium Batch includes the ability to process multiple files at a single time, all with incredible speed.
    • Simultaneously convert a batch of up to 20 whole genomes from FASTQ to VCF in just hours.

EvE Premium v4 supports the following bioinformatics conversions, alignments and variant calling:

• FASTQ to gVCF and regular VCF (Supports both single end reads and paired-end reads)
• FASTA to to gVCF and regular VCF (Supports both single end reads and paired-end reads)
• FASTQ to BAM
• FASTA to BAM
• FASTQ to SAM
• FASTA to SAM
• SAM to FASTQ
• BAM to FASTQ
• BAM to gVCF (genome VCF) and regular VCF
• SAM to gVCF (genome VCF) and regular VCF
• SAM to BAM
• BAM to SAM
• BAM to SVG
• BAM to CRAM
• SAM to CRAM
• CRAM to VCF
• BED to VCF
• VCF to WT (Wormtable)
• GVF to VCF
• gVCF (genome VCF) to VCF
• Text region lists to VCF: When a region list is supplied then data for those regions will be extracted.
• CSV to VCF (specific formatting required)
• TXT to VCF (specific formatting required)
• FASTA/ FASTQ/ SAM or BAM to Clinical plus VCF: This is Sequencing VCF format file that included calls and no calls data but excludes reference calls.
• FASTA/ FASTQ/ SAM or BAM to annotated VCF file
• FASTA/ FASTQ/ SAM/ BAM and VCF file to GVF: Supports converting  Genome Variation Format file
• FASTA/ FASTQ/ SAM/ BAM and VCF to Wormtable format
• Array to VCF: Converts a gene array file including 23andMe, Ancestry.com, Family Tree DNA and The Genographic Project (National Geographic) into a VCF file

Many output formats can also include annotations and interpretations, including ClinVar interpretation.

INPUTS

EvE accepts almost all file formats including .bz2 and .gz compression.

EvE also accepts inputs generated using reference genome GRCh37 through the latest patch releases of GRCh38.

• FASTA
• FASTQ
• SEQUENCE.TXT
• QSEQ
• SAM
• BAM
• CRAM
• VCF
• gVCF (genome VCF with blocks)
• GVCF (genome VCF without blocks)
• GVF (Genome variant format)
• WT (Wormtable)
• CSV
• TXT
• 23andMe data files (all 23andMe versions)
• AncestryDNA data files (all Ancestry versions)
• FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) data files
• MyHeritage data files
• Living DNA data files
• HomeDNA data files
• Genographic Project (National Geographic) data files
• Dante Labs data files
• Helix (Exome+) data files
• Veritas Genetics data files
• GeneDx data files
• Ambry Genetics data files
• Baylor College of Medicine data files
• Invitae data files
• Color Genomics data files
• As well as array, exome and whole genome sequencing data files from almost all laboratories such as Illumina's Clinical Sequencing Lab, BGI, Macrogen and WuXi NEXTcode.

 

OUTPUTS (Target Formats)

Outputs can be produced using any reference genome of your choice from GRCh37 through GRCh38 (including the latest patch releases).

• FASTA
• FASTQ
• SAM
• BAM
• VCF
• VCF with reference SNP IDs (rs<number>) added
• Annotated VCF (includes reference SNP IDs rs<number>)
• gVCF (genome VCF with blocks)
• GVF (Genome variant format)
• Clinical+ VCF
• WT (Wormtable)
• SVG
• CRAM
• AVRO
• TXT (23andMe format)
• SQLite
• CNV (vcf file containing copy number variations) (coming soon)
• SV (vcf file containing structural variants) (coming soon)
• Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy (coming soon)
• Telomere Length (coming soon)
• Methylation (coming soon)

Integrated Tools	Version
FASTQC	0.11.5
CutAdapt	1.14
BWA	Custom version powered by Microsoft Genomics
Bowtie 2	2.3.3.1
TopHat	2.1
STAR	2.5.3a_modified
HISAT	0.1.6-beta
Stampy	1.0.27
SOAP Aligner	2.21
segemehl	0.2.0-418
Isaac Aligner	4
Strelka	2
GATK	Custom version powered by Microsoft Genomics
SAMtools	1.6
BCFtools	1.6
bgzip	1.6
htsfile	1.6
tabix	1.6
Platypus	0.8.1
SnpEff (with ANN field)	4.3 S
SnpSift	4.3 S
GEMINI (SQLite2)	0.20.1
CRAM	1.2
GVF Generator	1.0-sequencing.com
Clinical+ VCF	2.0-sequencing.com
23andMe to VCF	2.0-sequencing.com
CSV-TXT-XLS-XLSX to VCF	2.0-sequencing.com
GFF3	1.0-sequencing.com
Wormtable	0.1.4a1
HPG BigData (AVRO)	0.5
Ensemble tools	81
VEP (Variant Effect Predictor)	81
ClinVar	Updated every 1-2 weeks
CRAM	1.2
SVG	Jun 17, 2015
gvcftools	Feb 10, 2016
CAVA	1.2.0
Picard	1.36

SamTools

Input Options:

• -6, --illumina1.3+: Assume the quality is in the Illumina 1.3+ encoding.
• -A, --count-orphans: Do not skip anomalous read pairs in variant calling.
• -b, --bam-list FILE: List of input BAM files, one file per line [null]
• -B, --no-BAQ: Disable probabilistic realignment for the computation of base alignment quality (BAQ). BAQ is the Phred-scaled probability of a read base being misaligned. Applying this option greatly helps to reduce false SNPs caused by misalignments.
• -C, --adjust-MQ INT: Coefficient for downgrading mapping quality for reads containing excessive mismatches. Given a read with a phred-scaled probability q of being generated from the mapped position, the new mapping quality is about sqrt((INT-q)/INT)*INT. A zero value disables this functionality; if enabled, the recommended value for BWA is 50. [0]
• -d, --max-depth INT:At a position, read maximally INT reads per input BAM. [250]
• -E, --redo-BAQ: Recalculate BAQ on the fly, ignore existing BQ tags
• -f, --fasta-ref FILE: The faidx-indexed reference file in the FASTA format. The file can be optionally compressed by bgzip. [null]
• -G, --exclude-RG FILE: Exclude reads from readgroups listed in FILE (one @RG-ID per line)
• -l, --positions FILE: BED or position list file containing a list of regions or sites where pileup or BCF should be generated. If BED, positions are 0-based half-open [null]
• -q, -min-MQ INT: Minimum mapping quality for an alignment to be used [0]
• -Q, --min-BQ INT: Minimum base quality for a base to be considered [13]
• -r, --region STR: Only generate pileup in region. Requires the BAM files to be indexed. If used in conjunction with -l then considers the intersection of the two requests. STR [all sites]
• -R, --ignore-RG: Ignore RG tags. Treat all reads in one BAM as one sample.
  • --rf, --incl-flags STR|INT: Required flags: skip reads with mask bits unset [null]
  • --ff, --excl-flags STR|INT: Filter flags: skip reads with mask bits set [UNMAP,SECONDARY,QCFAIL,DUP]
• -x, --ignore-overlaps: Disable read-pair overlap detection.

 

Output Options:

• -o, --output FILE: Write pileup or VCF/BCF output to FILE, rather than the default of standard output.
• -g, --BCF: Compute genotype likelihoods and output them in the binary call format (BCF). As of v1.0, this is BCF2 which is incompatible with the BCF1 format produced by previous (0.1.x) versions of samtools.
• -v, --VCF: Compute genotype likelihoods and output them in the variant call format (VCF). Output is bgzip-compressed VCF unless -u option is set.
• -O, --output-BP: Output base positions on reads.
• -s, --output-MQ: Output mapping quality.

 

Output Options for VCF/BCF format (with -g or -v):

• -D: Output per-sample read depth [DEPRECATED - use -t DP instead]
• -S: Output per-sample Phred-scaled strand bias P-value [DEPRECATED - use -t SP instead]
• -t, --output-tags LIST

 

Options for SNP/INDEL Genotype Likelihood Computation (for -g or -v):

• -e, --ext-prob INT: Phred-scaled gap extension sequencing error probability. Reducing INT leads to longer indels. [20]
• -F, --gap-frac FLOAT: Minimum fraction of gapped reads [0.002]
• -h, --tandem-qual INT: Coefficient for modeling homopolymer errors. Given an l-long homopolymer run, the sequencing error of an indel of size s is modeled as INT*s/l. [100]
• -I, --skip-indels: Do not perform INDEL calling
• -L, --max-idepth INT
• -m, --min-ireads INT: Minimum number gapped reads for indel candidates INT. [1]
• -o, --open-prob INT: Phred-scaled gap open sequencing error probability. Reducing INT leads to more indel calls. [40]
• -p, --per-sample-mF: Apply -m and -F thresholds per sample to increase sensitivity of calling. By default both options are applied to reads pooled from all samples.
• -P, --platforms STR: Comma-delimited list of platforms (determined by @RG-PL) from which indel candidates are obtained. It is recommended to collect indel candidates from sequencing technologies that have low indel error rate such as ILLUMINA. [all]

 

GATK

Unified Genotyper:

• -R: Reference File Name
• -I: BAM file name
  • --alleles: The set of alleles at which to genotype when --genotyping_mode is GENOTYPE_GIVEN_ALLELES
  • --comp: Comparison VCF file
  • --dbsnp: -D dbSNP file
  • --annotation: -A: One or more specific annotations to apply to variant calls
  • --contamination_fraction_to_filter, -contamination: Fraction of contamination in sequencing data (for all samples) to aggressively remove
  • --excludeAnnotation, -XA: One or more specific annotations to exclude
  • --genotype_likelihoods_model, -glm    NA    Genotype likelihoods calculation model to employ -- SNP is the default option, while INDEL is also available for calling indels and BOTH is available for calling both together
  • --genotyping_mode, -gt_mode: Specifies how to determine the alternate alleles to use for genotyping, 
  • --group, -G: One or more classes/groups of annotations to apply to variant calls. The single value 'none' removes the default group
  • --heterozygosity, -hets: Heterozygosity value used to compute prior likelihoods for any locus. 
  • --indel_heterozygosity, -indelHeterozygosity: Heterozygosity for indel calling. 
  • --max_deletion_fraction, -deletions: Maximum fraction of reads with deletions spanning this locus for it to be callable
  • --min_base_quality_score, -mbq: Minimum base quality required to consider a base for calling
  • --min_indel_count_for_genotyping, -minIndelCnt: Minimum number of consensus indels required to trigger genotyping run
  • --min_indel_fraction_per_sample, -minIndelFrac: Minimum fraction of all reads at a locus that must contain an indel (of any allele) for that sample to contribute to the indel count for alleles
  • --output_mode, -out_mode: Specifies which type of calls we should output
  • --pair_hmm_implementation -pairHMM: The PairHMM implementation to use for -glm INDEL genotype likelihood calculations
  • --pcr_error_rate, -pcr_error: The PCR error rate to be used for computing fragment-based likelihoods
  • --sample_ploidy
  • --standard_min_confidence_threshold_for_calling, -stand_call_conf: The minimum phred-scaled confidence threshold at which variants should be called.
  • --standard_min_confidence_threshold_for_emitting, -stand_emit_conf: The minimum phred-scaled confidence threshold at which variants should be emitted (and filtered with LowQual if less than the calling threshold)
• -annotateNDA, -nda: If provided, we will annotate records with the number of alternate alleles that were discovered (but not necessarily genotyped) at a given site
  • --computeSLOD, -slod: If provided, we will calculate the SLOD (SB annotation)
  • --contamination_fraction_per_sample_file
  • --indelGapContinuationPenalty
•  -indelGCP: Indel gap continuation penalty, as Phred-scaled probability. I.e., 30 => 10^-30/10
  • --indelGapOpenPenalty, -indelGOP: Indel gap open penalty, as Phred-scaled probability. I.e., 30 => 10^-30/10
  • --input_prior,  -inputPrior: Input prior for calls
  • --max_alternate_alleles, -maxAltAlleles: Maximum number of alternate alleles to genotype

 

SNPEff

• -noShiftHgvs: Do not shift variants towards most 3-prime position (as required by HGVS).
• -canon: Only use canonical transcripts.
• -interval: Use a custom intervals in TXT/BED/BigBed/VCF/GFF file (you may use this option many times)
• -motif: Annotate using motifs (requires Motif database).
• -noMotif: Disable motif annotations.
• -noNextProt: Disable NextProt annotations.
• -onlyReg: Only use regulation tracks.
• -onlyProtein: Only use protein coding transcripts. Default: false
• -onlyTR: Only use the transcripts in this file. Format: One transcript ID per line.
• -reg: Regulation track to use (this option can be used add several times).
• -ss , -spliceSiteSize   : Set size for splice sites (donor and acceptor) in bases. Default: 2
• -strict: Only use 'validated' transcripts (i.e. sequence has been checked). Default: false

When you use EvE Premium, your data files and result file(s) will be stored in your Sequencing.com account, which provides free, unlimited storage of genetic data. 

• HIPAA-compliant, confidential and secure storage
• Access and download your files at any time.
• Securely share files with your colleagues.

This simple yet secure approach means you no longer have to use your own storage or computing power to conduct genetic analysis and you also no longer have to use USB drives or FTP sites to move and share genetic data.

 

EvE includes an integration of the following:

Samtools

A suite of programs for interacting with high-throughput sequencing data. It consists of three separate repositories:

1. Samtools: Reading/writing/editing/indexing/viewing SAM/BAM/CRAM format
2. BCFtools: Reading/writing BCF2/VCF/gVCF files and calling/filtering/summarising SNP and short indel sequence variants
3. HTSlib: A C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data

 

GATK (Genome Analysis Toolkit)

GATK analyzes high-throughput sequencing data. The toolkit, which focuses on providing high quality data, offers a wide variety of tools including variant discovery and genotyping. 

 

Isaac Variant Caller

Isaac Variant Caller (IVC) is an analysis package designed to detect SNVs and small indels from the aligned sequencing reads of a single diploid sample.

 

SnpEFF

SnpEFF predicts the effects of genetic variations and also provides annotations. Annotations can simple such as variant name or more complex such as site of variation such as exon, intron and its effect on gene expression.

 

Sequencing.com Scripts

Since UGENE offers conversions between different file formats such which is a multistep process at time, we use our own scripts to pipe data and create some file types. Specifically, the Clinical plus VCF files and gVCF to VCF conversions are executed by sequencing.com customs scripts. 

 

Wormtable (WT)

Wormtable is a format for storing large scale tabular data and interacting with it. It generates an index file as well that can be used repeatedly. Wormtable files are considered very Python friendly and can be used in downstream Python based analysis.

 

GVF

GVF (Genome Variation Format) is gaining popularity as a standard for sequence ontology based datasets. It is a successor of the GFF3 format and includes pragmas for defining sequence alterations at genomic locations as compared to the reference genome.

 

gVCF

Human clinical applications require sequencing information for both variant and non-variant positions, yet there is currently no common exchange format for such data. Genomic VCF (gVCF) addresses this issue. gVCF is a set of conventions applied to the standard variant call format (VCF) that include genotype, annotation and other information across all sites in the genome in a reasonably compact format.

Samtools

• The Sequence alignment/map (SAM) format and SAMtools Li H., et al., 2009 Bioinformatics 25: 2078-9. [Pubmed]
• A statistical framework for SNP calling, mutation discovery, association mapping and population genetical parameter estimation from sequencing data. Li H. Bioinformatics 2011 Nov 1;27(21): 2987-93. Epub 2011 Sep 8. [Pubmed]
• Multiallelic calling model in bcftools (-m) Danecek P., et al. [Link]
• Improving SNP discovery by base alignment quality. Li H. Bioinformatics 2011 Apr 15;27(8):1157-8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr076. Epub 2011 Feb 13. [Pubmed]
• Segregation based metric for variant call QC Durbin R. [Link]
• Mathematical Notes on SAMtools Algorithms Li H. [Link]

 

GATK

• The Genome Analysis Toolkit: a MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data, McKenna A, et al., Genome Research 2010 20:1297-303 [Article] [Pubmed]
• A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data, DePristo M, et al., Nature Genetics 2011 43:491-498 [Article] [Pubmed]
• From FastQ Data to High-Confidence Variant Calls: The Genome Analysis Toolkit Best Practices Pipeline, Van der Auwera GA, et al., Current Protocols in Bioinformatics 2013 43:11.10.1-11.10.33 [Article] [Pubmed]

 

Isaac Variant Caller

• Isaac: ultra-fast whole-genome secondary analysis on Illumina sequencing platforms Bioinformatics June 4, 2013 29(16): 2041-2043 [Article] [Pubmed]
• Isaac Genome Alignment and Isaac Variant Caller Illumina Technical Support Note. Pub. No. 770-2013-009 Current as of July 3, 2013 [Link]

 

SnpEff

• A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff: SNPs in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster strain w1118; iso-2; iso-3. Fly (Austin). 2012 Apr-Jun;6(2):80-92. doi: 10.4161/fly.19695. [PubMed]

 

Sequencing.com Scripts

• Clinical+ VCF [Link]
• GVF Convertor

 

Wormtable

• Processing genome scale tabular data with wormtable [Article]

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