Lariat is an aligner for barcoded linked reads, produced by the 10X Genomics GemCode™ platform. All the linked reads for a single barcode are aligned simultaneously, with the prior knowledge that the reads arise from a small number of long (10kb - 200kb) molecules. This approach allows reads to be mapped in repetitive regions of the genome.
We follow the RFA method developed in the Batzoglou lab by Bishara, Liu et. al. Genome Res. 2015. 25:1570-1580
Lariat generates candidate alignments by calling the BWA C API, then performs the RFA inference to select the final mapping position and MAPQ.
- Lariat currently requires Go 1.3
- Lariat currently requires a non standard format for input reads. We recommend using the Lariat build bundled with the 10X Genomics Long Ranger software (http://software.10xgenomics.com/)
Please contact us if you're interested in using Lariat independently of the Long Ranger pipeline.
Lariat requires input data in a non-standard FASTQ-like format. Each read-pair is formatted as a record of 9 consecutive lines containing:
- read header
- read1 sequence
- read1 quals
- read2 sequence
- read2 quals
- 10X barcode string
- 10X barcode quals
- sample index sequence
- sample index quals
Read pairs must be sorted by the 10X barcode string. The 10X barcode string is of the form 'ACGTACGTACGTAC-1'.
Lariat is distributed under the GPLv3. Lariat links to BWA at the object level. Lariat include the BWA source code via git submodule. BWA is licensed also licensed under the GPLv3.