Open chromatin assays show distinct fragment length enrichments, as the cut
sites are only in open chromatin and not in nucleosomes. As such, peaks
representing different n-nucleosomal (ex mono-nucleosomal, di-nucleosomal)
fragment lengths will arise. Good libraries will show these peaks in a
fragment length distribution and will show specific peak ratios.
NFR: Nucleosome free region
Sequence quality metrics (filtered/deduped BAM)
Open chromatin assays are known to have significant GC bias. Please take this
into consideration as necessary.
Library complexity quality metrics
Library complexity (filtered non-mito BAM)
rep1
rep2
Total Fragments
230808
275697
Distinct Fragments
230603
275503
Positions with Two Read
197
175
NRF = Distinct/Total
0.999112
0.999296
PBC1 = OneRead/Distinct
0.999133
0.999339
PBC2 = OneRead/TwoRead
1169.558376
1573.262857
Mitochondrial reads are filtered out by default.
The non-redundant fraction (NRF) is the fraction of non-redundant mapped reads
in a dataset; it is the ratio between the number of positions in the genome
that uniquely mapped reads map to and the total number of uniquely mappable
reads. The NRF should be > 0.8. The PBC1 is the ratio of genomic locations
with EXACTLY one read pair over the genomic locations with AT LEAST one read
pair. PBC1 is the primary measure, and the PBC1 should be close to 1.
Provisionally 0-0.5 is severe bottlenecking, 0.5-0.8 is moderate bottlenecking,
0.8-0.9 is mild bottlenecking, and 0.9-1.0 is no bottlenecking. The PBC2 is
the ratio of genomic locations with EXACTLY one read pair over the genomic
locations with EXACTLY two read pairs. The PBC2 should be significantly
greater than 1.
NRF (non redundant fraction)
PBC1 (PCR Bottleneck coefficient 1)
PBC2 (PCR Bottleneck coefficient 2)
PBC1 is the primary measure. Provisionally
0-0.5 is severe bottlenecking
0.5-0.8 is moderate bottlenecking
0.8-0.9 is mild bottlenecking
0.9-1.0 is no bottlenecking
Replication quality metrics
IDR (Irreproducible Discovery Rate) plots
Reproducibility QC and peak detection statistics
overlap
idr
Nt
30041
374
N1
13440
45
N2
14918
75
Np
30250
478
N optimal
30250
478
N conservative
30041
374
Optimal Set
pooled-pr1_vs_pooled-pr2
pooled-pr1_vs_pooled-pr2
Conservative Set
rep1_vs_rep2
rep1_vs_rep2
Rescue Ratio
1.0069571585499817
1.2780748663101604
Self Consistency Ratio
1.109970238095238
1.6666666666666667
Reproducibility Test
pass
pass
Reproducibility QC
N1: Replicate 1 self-consistent peaks (comparing two pseudoreplicates generated by subsampling Rep1 reads)
N2: Replicate 2 self-consistent peaks (comparing two pseudoreplicates generated by subsampling Rep2 reads)
Ni: Replicate i self-consistent peaks (comparing two pseudoreplicates generated by subsampling RepX reads)
Nt: True Replicate consistent peaks (comparing true replicates Rep1 vs Rep2)
Np: Pooled-pseudoreplicate consistent peaks (comparing two pseudoreplicates generated by subsampling pooled reads from Rep1 and Rep2)
Self-consistency Ratio: max(N1,N2) / min (N1,N2)
Rescue Ratio: max(Np,Nt) / min (Np,Nt)
Reproducibility Test: If Self-consistency Ratio >2 AND Rescue Ratio > 2, then 'Fail' else 'Pass'
Number of raw peaks
rep1
rep2
Number of peaks
236483
270505
Top 300000 raw peaks from macs2 with p-val threshold 0.01
Peak calling statistics
Peak region size
rep1
rep2
idr_opt
overlap_opt
Min size
150.0
150.0
168.0
150.0
25 percentile
150.0
150.0
373.25
229.0
50 percentile (median)
182.0
190.0
461.0
311.0
75 percentile
249.0
255.0
559.5
411.0
Max size
976.0
1058.0
907.0
1212.0
Mean
209.35772127383365
214.82435075137244
471.8661087866109
332.85738842975206
Enrichment / Signal-to-noise ratio
Strand cross-correlation measures (filtered BAM)
rep1
rep2
Number of Subsampled Reads
230808
275697
Estimated Fragment Length
0
0
Cross-correlation at Estimated Fragment Length
0.0111972879681259
0.0135895835739089
Phantom Peak
70
70
Cross-correlation at Phantom Peak
0.01143303
0.01393697
Argmin of Cross-correlation
1500
1500
Minimum of Cross-correlation
0.004724189
0.007344452
NSC (Normalized Strand Cross-correlation coeff.)
2.370203
1.85032
RSC (Relative Strand Cross-correlation coeff.)
0.9648616
0.9473054
Performed on subsampled (25000000) reads.
Such FASTQ trimming is for cross-corrleation analysis only.
Normalized strand cross-correlation coefficient (NSC) = col9 in outFile
Relative strand cross-correlation coefficient (RSC) = col10 in outFile
Estimated fragment length = col3 in outFile, take the top value
TSS enrichment (filtered/deduped BAM)
rep1
rep2
TSS enrichment
18.987184149250922
16.735814540085777
Open chromatin assays should show enrichment in open chromatin sites, such as
TSS's. An average TSS enrichment in human (hg19) is above 6. A strong TSS enrichment is
above 10. For other references please see https://www.encodeproject.org/atac-seq/
Jensen-Shannon distance (filtered/deduped BAM)
rep1
rep2
AUC
0.014306630744699232
0.01693557563490223
Synthetic AUC
0.4367909846533249
0.44145999871653496
X-intercept
0.9579879480012636
0.9507323568575233
Synthetic X-intercept
0.03690139395640774
0.018356871833377548
Elbow Point
0.958491780728798
0.9513541504220598
Synthetic Elbow Point
0.5967858194052946
0.45630251527123744
Synthetic JS Distance
0.09990741508026403
0.09641430432679374
Peak enrichment
Fraction of reads in peaks (FRiP)
FRiP for macs2 raw peaks
rep1
rep2
rep1-pr1
rep2-pr1
rep1-pr2
rep2-pr2
pooled
pooled-pr1
pooled-pr2
Fraction of Reads in Peaks
0.9243489385692911
0.918188979808174
0.970522928538593
0.9672835786217863
0.9708739548277417
0.9674650944971647
0.6989415919200542
0.9209772272766795
0.9224945755490651
FRiP for overlap peaks
rep1_vs_rep2
rep1-pr1_vs_rep1-pr2
rep2-pr1_vs_rep2-pr2
pooled-pr1_vs_pooled-pr2
Fraction of Reads in Peaks
0.1939825271765443
0.15084025413621874
0.14622737404613406
0.19479075888807867
FRiP for IDR peaks
rep1_vs_rep2
rep1-pr1_vs_rep1-pr2
rep2-pr1_vs_rep2-pr2
pooled-pr1_vs_pooled-pr2
Fraction of Reads in Peaks
0.0126540629946467
0.004753127913784505
0.007077303981006179
0.014580776732412067
For macs2 raw peaks:
repX: Peak from true replicate X
repX-prY: Peak from Yth pseudoreplicates from replicate X
pooled: Peak from pooled true replicates (pool of rep1, rep2, ...)
pooled-pr1: Peak from 1st pooled pseudo replicate (pool of rep1-pr1, rep2-pr1, ...)
pooled-pr2: Peak from 2nd pooled pseudo replicate (pool of rep1-pr2, rep2-pr2, ...)
For overlap/IDR peaks:
repX_vs_repY: Comparing two peaks from true replicates X and Y
repX-pr1_vs_repX-pr2: Comparing two peaks from both pseudoreplicates from replicate X
pooled-pr1_vs_pooled-pr2: Comparing two peaks from 1st and 2nd pooled pseudo replicates
Annotated genomic region enrichment
rep1
rep2
Fraction of Reads in universal DHS regions
0.46376173645293495
0.4277004116780054
Fraction of Reads in blacklist regions
0.0006613613201205629
0.0007532908828206115
Fraction of Reads in promoter regions
0.15181603313311795
0.13602799700861837
Fraction of Reads in enhancer regions
0.3902769043953423
0.372750110724684
Signal to noise can be assessed by considering whether reads are falling into
known open regions (such as DHS regions) or not. A high fraction of reads
should fall into the universal (across cell type) DHS set. A small fraction
should fall into the blacklist regions. A high set (though not all) should
fall into the promoter regions. A high set (though not all) should fall into
the enhancer regions. The promoter regions should not take up all reads, as
it is known that there is a bias for promoters in open chromatin assays.