Imputation set up

The software we use for imputation, impute5, has a restrictive license. You will need to accept this license, download the software, and configure snpQT to use it.

Singularity

To set up imputation with Singularity, firstly copy impute5 v1.1.4 to the environments/impute5 directory:

$ cd environments/impute5/
$ cp ~/Downloads/impute5_v1.1.4.zip . 

Then build a Singularity .sif file:

$ sudo singularity build impute5.sif impute5.def

Singularity containers can run by normal users, but building Singularity images requires root access. If you want to impute on a computer where you don't have root access, you can transfer the impute5.sif to environments/impute5/.

If you don't have root access on any computers, you could try Singularity's remote builder service. Or maybe use a virtual machine!

Modules

If you are using -profile modules on a cluster, the easiest thing to do is to run module avail and search for impute5. On our cluster, impute5 is installed as impute/5_1.1.4. If your cluster is different, you will need to edit conf/modules.config:

  // imputation with environment modules
  // http://modules.sourceforge.net
  // https://www.nextflow.io/docs/latest/process.html#module
  // module names won't be consistent across systems :( 
  withName: 'convert_imp5|impute5' {
    module = 'impute/5_1.1.4'
  }

And change impute/5_1.1.4 to whatever is listed in module avail. -profile modules also requires Anaconda to be installed.

Docker

Docker requires root access to build and run containers, so isn't an option for many people. However, it's simple to build a docker image from the Dockerfile:

$ cd environments/impute5/
$ cp ~/Downloads/impute5_v1.1.4.zip .
$ sudo docker build -t impute5 .