This tutorial details how to use the OpenCGA alignment command line to run the alignment/mapping pipeline steps. The alignment pipeline outputs alignments in BAM files from raw sequence data in FastQ format files. BAM files can be used for further analysis, such as alignment statistics, coverage computation or variant calling.
Prerequisites
A working setup of OpenCGA is required to setup a testing environment, please follow the steps on installation guide.
In addition, you need to download the following data files:
For the input.fastq file, the FastQC command creates a report file called input_fastqc.html that can be downloaded from the OpenCGA catalog to the local directory /tmp by using the following command: