Define where the pipeline should find input data and save output data.

Path to comma-separated file containing information about the samples in the experiment.

required
type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.csv$

You will need to create a design file with information about the samples in your experiment before running the pipeline. Use this parameter to specify its location. It has to be a comma-separated file with 3 columns, and a header row. See usage docs.

The output directory where the results will be saved. You have to use absolute paths to storage on Cloud infrastructure.

required
type: string

Email address for completion summary.

type: string
pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5})$

Set this parameter to your e-mail address to get a summary e-mail with details of the run sent to you when the workflow exits. If set in your user config file (~/.nextflow/config) then you don't need to specify this on the command line for every run.

MultiQC report title. Printed as page header, used for filename if not otherwise specified.

type: string

Specify aligner to be used to map reads to reference genome.

type: string

Skip all of the alignment-based processes within the pipeline.

type: boolean

Skip the adapter trimming step.

type: boolean

Use this if your input FastQ files have already been trimmed outside of the workflow or if you're very confident that there is no adapter contamination in your data.

Options for processing reads with unique molecular identifiers

Enable UMI-based read deduplication.

type: boolean

Generate output stats when running "umi_tools dedup".

type: boolean

It can be quite time consuming generating these output stats - see #827.

Type of experiment to use for Transcript Identification(NT or TSS)

What type of nascent or TSS assay the sample is.

required
type: string

Use HOMER uniqmap for transcript identification.

hidden
type: boolean

Enable this to use HOMER's uniqmap functionality for more accurate transcript identification in repetitive regions.

Skip groHMM all together

type: boolean

Minimum number of UTs to use for groHMM.

type: integer
default: 5

Maximum number of UTs to use for groHMM.

type: integer
default: 45

Minimum LTProbB value to use for groHMM.

type: integer
default: -100

Depends on how you look at this one, which is the minimum and maximum... But I figured most will ignore the negative, so we went with absolute values.

Maximum LTProbB value to use for groHMM.

type: integer
default: -400

Depends on how you look at this one, which is the minimum and maximum... But I figured most will ignore the negative, so we went with absolute values.

Undesired regions, that transcripts should not overlap with

type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.bed(\.gz)?$

Promoter regions, or gene regions are a good example

Desired regions, that transcripts should overlap with

type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.bed(\.gz)?$

Histone Modifications(H3K4me1 and H3K27ac), or known TREs from the PINTS element matrix are examples

Reference genome related files and options required for the workflow.

Name of iGenomes reference.

type: string

If using a reference genome configured in the pipeline using iGenomes, use this parameter to give the ID for the reference. This is then used to build the full paths for all required reference genome files e.g. --genome GRCh38.

See the nf-core website docs for more details.

Path to FASTA genome file.

type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.fn?a(sta)?(\.gz)?$

This parameter is mandatory if --genome is not specified. If you don't have a BWA index available this will be generated for you automatically. Combine with --save_reference to save BWA index for future runs.

Path to GTF annotation file.

type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.gtf(\.gz)?$

This parameter is mandatory if --genome is not specified.

Path to GFF3 annotation file.

type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.gff(3)?(\.gz)?$

This parameter must be specified if --genome or --gtf are not specified.

Path to BED file containing gene intervals. This will be created from the GTF file if not specified.

type: string
pattern: ^\S+\.bed(\.gz)?$

Path to BWA mem indices.

type: string

NB If none provided, will be generated automatically from the FASTA reference.

Path to bwa-mem2 mem indices.

hidden
type: string

NB If none provided, will be generated automatically from the FASTA reference.

Path to dragmap indices.

hidden
type: string

If you use AWS iGenomes, this has already been set for you appropriately.

If you wish to recompute indices available on igenomes, set --dragmap false.

NB If none provided, will be generated automatically from the FASTA reference, if --aligner dragmap is specified. Combine with --save_reference to save for future runs.

Path to bowtie2 indices.

hidden
type: string

If you use AWS iGenomes, this has already been set for you appropriately.

If you wish to recompute indices available on igenomes, set --dragmap false.

NB If none provided, will be generated automatically from the FASTA reference, if --aligner bowtie2 is specified. Combine with --save_reference to save for future runs.

Path to HISAT2 indices.

type: string

NB If none provided, index will NOT be generated automatically from the FASTA reference. See nf-core/references if a custom index is needed.

Path to STAR indices.

type: string

NB If none provided, index will be generated automatically from the FASTA reference.

Path to HOMER uniqmap file or URL to download.

hidden
type: string

NB If none provided, will be downloaded automatically from the HOMER website. See nf-core/references for generation

If generated by the pipeline save the BWA index in the results directory.

type: boolean

If an alignment index is generated by the pipeline use this parameter to save it to your results folder. These can then be used for future pipeline runs, reducing processing times.

Do not load the iGenomes reference config.

hidden
type: boolean

Do not load igenomes.config when running the pipeline. You may choose this option if you observe clashes between custom parameters and those supplied in igenomes.config.

The base path to the igenomes reference files

hidden
type: string
default: s3://ngi-igenomes/igenomes/

Directory / URL base for CHM13 references.

hidden
type: string
default: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/human-pangenomics

Parameters used to describe centralised config profiles. These should not be edited.

Git commit id for Institutional configs.

hidden
type: string
default: master

Base directory for Institutional configs.

hidden
type: string
default: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nf-core/configs/master

If you're running offline, Nextflow will not be able to fetch the institutional config files from the internet. If you don't need them, then this is not a problem. If you do need them, you should download the files from the repo and tell Nextflow where to find them with this parameter.

Institutional config name.

hidden
type: string

Institutional config description.

hidden
type: string

Institutional config contact information.

hidden
type: string

Institutional config URL link.

hidden
type: string

Less common options for the pipeline, typically set in a config file.

Display version and exit.

hidden
type: boolean

Method used to save pipeline results to output directory.

hidden
type: string

The Nextflow publishDir option specifies which intermediate files should be saved to the output directory. This option tells the pipeline what method should be used to move these files. See Nextflow docs for details.

Email address for completion summary, only when pipeline fails.

hidden
type: string
pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5})$

An email address to send a summary email to when the pipeline is completed - ONLY sent if the pipeline does not exit successfully.

Send plain-text email instead of HTML.

hidden
type: boolean

File size limit when attaching MultiQC reports to summary emails.

hidden
type: string
default: 25.MB
pattern: ^\d+(\.\d+)?\.?\s*(K|M|G|T)?B$

Do not use coloured log outputs.

hidden
type: boolean

Incoming hook URL for messaging service

hidden
type: string

Incoming hook URL for messaging service. Currently, MS Teams and Slack are supported.

Custom config file to supply to MultiQC.

hidden
type: string

Custom logo file to supply to MultiQC. File name must also be set in the MultiQC config file

hidden
type: string

Custom MultiQC yaml file containing HTML including a methods description.

type: string

Boolean whether to validate parameters against the schema at runtime

hidden
type: boolean
default: true

Base URL or local path to location of pipeline test dataset files

hidden
type: string
default: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nf-core/test-datasets/