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What is PEAR?

PEAR is an ultrafast, memory-efficient and highly accurate pair-end read merger. It is fully parallelized and can run with as low as just a few kilobytes of memory. PEAR is distributed under the Creative Commons license, and it runs on the command-line under Linux and UNIX based operating systems.

Mandatory arguments

Specify the name of file that contains the forward paired-end reads

Specify the name of file that contains the reverse paired-end reads

Specify the name to be used as base for the output files. PEAR outputs four files. A file containing the assembled reads with a assembled.fastq extension, two files containing the forward, resp. reverse, unassembled reads with extensions unassembled.forward.fastq, resp. unassembled.reverse.fastq, and a file containing the discarded reads with a discarded.fastq extension.

Optional arguments

`p-value`	Specify a p-value for the statistical test. If the computed p-value of a possible assembly exceeds the specified p-value then the paired-end read will not be assembled. Valid options are: 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05 and 1.0. Setting 1.0 disables the test. (default: 0.01)
`Minimum overlap size`	Specify the minimum overlap size. The minimum overlap may be set to 1 when the statistical test is used. However, further restricting the minimum overlap size to a proper value may reduce false-positive assembles. (default: 10)
Maximum possible length	Specify the maximum possible length of the assembled sequences. Setting this value to 0 disables the restriction and assembled sequences may be arbitrary long. (default: 0)
Minimum possible length	Specify the minimum possible length of the assembled sequences. Setting this value to 0 disables the restriction and assembled sequences may be arbitrary short. (default: 50)
Minimum length of reads after trimming	Specify the minimum length of reads after trimming the low quality part (see option -q). (default: 1)
Quality score threshold for trimming	Specify the quality score threshold for trimming the low quality part of a read. If the quality scores of two consecutive bases are strictly less than the specified threshold, the rest of the read will be trimmed. (default: 0)
Maximal proportion of uncalled bases	Specify the maximal proportion of uncalled bases in a read. Setting this value to 0 will cause PEAR to discard all reads containing uncalled bases. The other extreme setting is 1 which causes PEAR to process all reads independent on the number of uncalled bases. (default: 1)
Statistical test	Specify the type of statistical test. Two options are available. (default: 1) Given the minimum allowed overlap, test using the highest OES. Note that due to its discrete nature, this test usually yields a lower p-value for the assembled read than the cut-off (specified by -p). For example, setting the cut-off to 0.05 using this test, the assembled reads might have an actual p-value of 0.02. Use the acceptance probability (m.a.p). This test methods computes the same probability as test method 1. However, it assumes that the minimal overlap is the observed overlap with the highest OES, instead of the one specified by -v. Therefore, this is not a valid statistical test and the 'p-value' is in fact the maximal probability for accepting the assembly. Nevertheless, we observed in practice that for the case the actual overlap sizes are relatively small, test 2 can correctly assemble more reads with only slightly higher false-positive rate.
Empirical base frequencies	Disable empirical base frequencies. (default: use empirical base frequencies)
Scoring method	Specify the scoring method. (default: 2) OES with +1 for match and -1 for mismatch. Assembly score (AS). Use +1 for match and -1 for mismatch multiplied by base quality scores. Ignore quality scores and use +1 for a match and -1 for a mismatch.
Base PHRED quality score	Base PHRED quality score. (default: 33)

Test Run

All files are located in the Community Data directory of the CyVerse Discovery Environment at the following path:

Community Data > iplantcollaborative > example_data > PEAR (/iplant/home/shared/iplantcollaborative/example_data/PEAR)

Mandatory arguments:

Use Read1.fastq for forward reads, Read2.fastq for reverse reads and ouput (default) for the name of output file

Leave all the optional arguments as default.

Output

A file containing the assembled reads with a assembled.fastq extension, two files containing the forward, resp. reverse, unassembled reads with extensions unassembled.forward.fastq, resp. unassembled.reverse.fastq, and a file containing the discarded reads with a discarded.fastq extension.

Tool Source for App

https://sco.h-its.org/exelixis/web/software/pear/doc.html#TOC

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