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atacseq completeness audit (2026-08-21)

Upstream: nf-core/atacseq @ 2.1.2 · Port: oxo-flow-atacseq (live-verified).

Mode matrix (upstream — param-driven, single workflow)

axis options default
aligner bwa / bowtie2 / chromap / star bwa
layout paired / single-end (samplesheet per-sample)
controls --with_control + control columns off
replicate merging merged-replicate arm (full second chain: markdup/bigwig/peaks/consensus) ON
consensus peaks --skip_consensus_peaks ON
peak mode broad (default) / --narrow_peak broad
QC toggles 13 skip flags (picard/preseq/plot_profile/plot_fingerprint/ataqv/igv/peak_qc/peak_annotation/deseq2_qc/multiqc/fastqc/trimming) mixed

Peak caller: MACS2 only (no Genrich at this tag); annotation HOMER; QC ataqv/deepTools/Preseq/Picard.

Gap tiers vs the port

P0: 3 non-default aligners (bowtie2, chromap, star — each index + align arm only, downstream shared; star pins 2.6.1d index format); controls mode (MACS2 control pairing + samplesheet columns); merged- replicate arm (full second chain).

P1: none — all tools OSS (ataqv MIT, chromap MIT, MACS2 BSD; STAR/bowtie2 GPLv3 compliance note only).

P2: the whole QC-toggle matrix, narrow/broad + cutoff, macs_fdr/ pvalue, min_reps_consensus, save_macs_pileup, keep_dups/keep_multi_map/ keep_mito, fragment_size, seq_center, min_trimmed_reads, deseq2_vst, save_* publish gates, blacklist handling, iGenomes genomes.

Tag-level gotchas (do not port): --skip_qc only gates FastQC (schema overclaims); macs_fdr/pvalue ignored on the replicate arm; --read_length enum-restricted; samples silently dropped below min_trimmed_reads.

External deps: iGenomes S3, raw.githubusercontent test data, Biocontainers.

Verdict

Light surface — shared backbone with 4 swappable aligners and one controls branch as the only structural P0s; everything else is toggles.

Re-verification (2026-08-23, batch 3)

Engine: latest main (post-v0.14.1) · Box: tx-ubuntu · Mode: real CLI run, not dry-run.

29/29 rules succeeded, exit 0, one round, zero failures at the latest commit. No fixes needed and no new failure classes — the default path (bwa aligner arm) runs clean against the reference data with no intervention.