SemiBin is a command tool for metagenomic binning with deep learning, handles both short and long reads.
CONTACT US: Please use GitHub issues for bug reports and the SemiBin users mailing-list for more open-ended discussions or questions.
If you use this software in a publication please cite:
Pan, S.; Zhu, C.; Zhao, XM.; Coelho, LP. A deep siamese neural network improves metagenome-assembled genomes in microbiome datasets across different environments. Nat Commun 13, 2326 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29843-y
The self-supervised approach and the algorithms used for long-read datasets (as well as their benchmarking) are described in
Pan, S.; Zhao, XM; Coelho, LP. SemiBin2: self-supervised contrastive learning leads to better MAGs for short- and long-read sequencing. Bioinformatics Volume 39, Issue Supplement_1, June 2023, Pages i21–i29; https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btad209
A tutorial of running SemiBin from scrath can be found here SemiBin tutorial.
Installation:
conda create -n SemiBin
conda activate SemiBin
conda install -c conda-forge -c bioconda semibin
This will install both the SemiBin2
command as well (for backwards compatibility), the old SemiBin
command. For new projects, it is recommended that you exclusively use SemiBin2
: both commands do the same thing, but SemiBin2
has a slightly nicer interface.
The inputs to the SemiBin are contigs (assembled from the reads) and BAM files (reads mapping to the contigs). In the docs you can see how to generate the inputs starting with a metagenome.
Running with single-sample binning (for example: human gut samples):
SemiBin2 single_easy_bin -i contig.fa -b S1.sorted.bam -o output --environment human_gut
(if you are using contigs from long-reads, add the --sequencing-type=long_read
argument).
Running with multi-sample binning:
SemiBin2 multi_easy_bin -i contig_whole.fa -b *.sorted.bam -o output
The output includes the bins in the output_bins
directory (including the bin.*.fa and recluster.*.fa).
Please find more options and details below and read the docs.
SemiBin runs (and is continuously tested) on Python 3.7-3.12
The simplest mode is shown above. However, if you want to use SemiBin with GPU (which is faster if you have one available), you need to install PyTorch with GPU support:
conda create -n SemiBin
conda activate SemiBin
conda install -c conda-forge -c bioconda semibin
conda install -c pytorch -c nvidia pytorch pytorch-cuda=11.8
MacOS note: you can only install the CPU version of PyTorch in MacOS with conda
and you need to install from source to take advantage of a GPU (see #72).
For more information on how to install PyTorch, see their documentation.
You will need the following dependencies:
The easiest way to install the dependencies is with conda:
conda install -c bioconda bedtools hmmer samtools
Once the dependencies are installed, you can install SemiBin by running:
python setup.py install
Optional extra dependencies for running SemiBin1:
SemiBin runs on single-sample, co-assembly and multi-sample binning. Here we show the simple modes as an example. For the details and examples of every SemiBin subcommand, please read the docs.
Since version 1.4, SemiBin proposes new algorithm (ensemble based DBSCAN algorithm) for binning assemblies from long reads.
To use it, you can used the subcommands bin_long
or pass the option --sequencing-type=long_read
to the single_easy_bin
or multi_easy_bin
subcommands.
Single sample and co-assembly are handled the same way by SemiBin.
You will need the following inputs:
contig.fa
in the example below)mapped_reads.sorted.bam
in the example below)The single_easy_bin
command can be used to produce results in a single step.
For example:
SemiBin2 \
single_easy_bin \
--input-fasta contig.fa \
--input-bam mapped_reads.sorted.bam \
--environment human_gut \
--output output
Alternatively, you can train a new model for that sample, by not passing in the --environment
flag:
SemiBin2 \
single_easy_bin \
--input-fasta contig.fa \
--input-bam mapped_reads.sorted.bam \
--output output
The following environments are supported:
human_gut
dog_gut
ocean
soil
cat_gut
human_oral
mouse_gut
pig_gut
built_environment
wastewater
chicken_caecum
(Contributed by Florian Plaza Oñate)global
The global
environment can be used if none of the others is appropriate.
Note that training a new model can take a lot of time and disk space.
Some patience will be required.
If you have a lot of samples from the same environment, you can also train a new model from them and reuse it.
The multi_easy_bin
command can be used in multi-samples binning mode:
You will need the following inputs:
For every contig, format of the name is <sample_name>:<contig_name>
, where
:
is the default separator (it can be changed with the --separator
argument). NOTE: Make sure the sample names are unique and the separator
does not introduce confusion when splitting. For example:
>S1:Contig_1
AGATAATAAAGATAATAATA
>S1:Contig_2
CGAATTTATCTCAAGAACAAGAAAA
>S1:Contig_3
AAAAAGAGAAAATTCAGAATTAGCCAATAAAATA
>S2:Contig_1
AATGATATAATACTTAATA
>S2:Contig_2
AAAATATTAAAGAAATAATGAAAGAAA
>S3:Contig_1
ATAAAGACGATAAAATAATAAAAGCCAAATCCGACAAAGAAAGAACGG
>S3:Contig_2
AATATTTTAGAGAAAGACATAAACAATAAGAAAAGTATT
>S3:Contig_3
CAAATACGAATGATTCTTTATTAGATTATCTTAATAAGAATATC
You can use this to get the combined contig:
SemiBin2 concatenate_fasta -i contig*.fa -o output
If either the sample or the contig names use the default separator (:
), you will need to change it with the --separator
,-s
argument.
After mapping samples (individually) to the combined FASTA file, you can get the results with one line of code:
SemiBin2 multi_easy_bin -i concatenated.fa -b *.sorted.bam -o output
Strobealign-aemb is a fast abundance estimation method for metagenomic binning. As strobealign-aemb can not provide the mapping information for every position of the contig, so we can not run SemiBin2 with strobealign-aemb in binning modes where samples used smaller 5 and need to split the contigs to generate the must-link constratints.
python script/generate_split.py -c contig.fa -o output
strobealign --aemb output/split.fa read1_1.fq read1_2.fq -R 6 > sample1.txt
strobealign --aemb output/split.fa read2_1.fq read2_2.fq -R 6 > sample2.txt
strobealign --aemb output/split.fa read3_1.fq read3_2.fq -R 6 > sample3.txt
strobealign --aemb output/split.fa read4_1.fq read4_2.fq -R 6 > sample4.txt
strobealign --aemb output/split.fa read5_1.fq read5_2.fq -R 6 > sample5.txt
SemiBin2 generate_sequence_features_single -i contig.fa -a *.txt -o output
SemiBin2 generate_sequence_features_multi -i contig.fa -a *.txt -s : -o output
SemiBin2 single_easy_bin -i contig.fa -a *.txt -o output
SemiBin2 multi_easy_bin i contig.fa -a *.txt -s : -o output
The output folder will contain:
By default, bins are in output_bins
directory.
For more details about the output, read the docs.