hAMRonization

This repo contains the hAMRonization module and CLI parser tools combine the outputs of disparate antimicrobial resistance gene detection tools into a single unified format.

This is an implementation of the hAMRonization AMR detection specification scheme.

This supports a variety of summary options including an interactive summary.

Installation

This tool requires python>=3.7 and pandas and can be installed directly from pip without cloning the repo.

pip install git+https://github.com/pha4ge/hAMRonization

Or just clone the repo and run pip:

git clone https://github.com/pha4ge/hAMRonization
pip install hAMRonization

Usage

>hamronize -h
usage: hamronize <tool> <options>

Convert AMR gene detection tool output to hAMRonization specification format

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

Tools with hAMRonizable reports:
  {abricate,amrfinderplus,ariba,rgi,resfinder,resfinder4,srax,deeparg,kmerresistance,srst2,staramr,csstar,amrplusplus,resfams,groot}
    abricate            hAMRonize abricate's output report i.e., OUTPUT.tsv
    amrfinderplus       hAMRonize amrfinderplus's output report i.e., OUTPUT.tsv
    ariba               hAMRonize ariba's output report i.e., OUTDIR/OUTPUT.tsv
    rgi                 hAMRonize rgi's output report i.e., OUTPUT.txt or OUTPUT_bwtoutput.gene_mapping_data.txt
    resfinder           hAMRonize resfinder's output report i.e., data_resfinder.json
    resfinder4          hAMRonize resfinder4's tabular output report i.e., ResFinder_results_tab.txt
    srax                hAMRonize srax's output report i.e., sraX_detected_ARGs.tsv
    deeparg             hAMRonize deeparg's output report i.e., OUTDIR/OUTPUT.mapping.ARG
    kmerresistance      hAMRonize kmerresistance's output report i.e., OUTPUT.KmerRes
    srst2               hAMRonize srst2's output report i.e., OUTPUT_srst2_report.tsv
    staramr             hAMRonize staramr's output report i.e., resfinder.tsv
    csstar              hAMRonize csstar's output report i.e., OUTPUT.tsv
    amrplusplus         hAMRonize amrplusplus's output report i.e., gene.tsv
    resfams             hAMRonize resfams's output report i.e., resfams.tblout
    groot               hAMRonize groot's output report i.e., OUTPUT.tsv (from `groot report`)

To look at a specific tool e.g. abricate:

>hamronize abricate -h 
usage: hamronize abricate <options>

Applies hAMRonization specification to output from abricate (OUTPUT.tsv)

positional arguments:
  report                Path to tool report

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --format FORMAT       Output format (tsv or json)
  --output OUTPUT       Output location
  --analysis_software_version ANALYSIS_SOFTWARE_VERSION
                        Input string containing the analysis_software_version for abricate
  --reference_database_version REFERENCE_DATABASE_VERSION
                        Input string containing the reference_database_version for abricate

Therefore, hAMRonizing abricates output:

hamronize abricate ../test/data/raw_outputs/abricate/report.tsv --reference_database_version db_v_1 --analysis_software_version tool_v_1 --format json

To parse multiple reports from the same tool at once just give a list of reports as the argument, and they will be concatenated appropriately (i.e. only one header for tsv)

hamronize rgi --input_file_name rgi_report --analysis_software_version rgi_v1 --reference_database_version card_v1 test/data/raw_outputs/rgi/rgi.txt test/data/raw_outputs/rgibwt/Kp11_bwtoutput.gene_mapping_data.txt

You can summarize hAMRonized reports regardless of format using the 'summarize' function:

> hamronize summarize -h
usage: hamronize summarize <options> <list of reports>

Concatenate and summarize AMR detection reports

positional arguments:
  hamronized_reports    list of hAMRonized reports

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t {tsv,json,interactive}, --summary_type {tsv,json,interactive}
                        Which summary report format to generate
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output file path for summary

This will take a list of report and create single sorted report in the specified format just containing the unique entries across input reports. This can handle mixed json and tsv hamronized report formats.

hamronize summarize -o combined_report.tsv -t tsv abricate.json ariba.tsv

The interactive summary option will produce an html file that can be opened within the browser for navigable data exploration (feature developed with @alexmanuele).

Using within scripts

Alternatively, hAMRonization can be used within scripts (the metadata must contain the mandatory metadata that is not included in that tool's output, this can be checked by looking at the CLI flags in hamronize <tool> --help):

import hAMRonization
metadata = {"analysis_software_version": "1.0.1", "reference_database_version": "2019-Jul-28"}
parsed_report = hAMRonization.parse("abricate_report.tsv", metadata, "abricate")

The parsed_report is then a generator that yields hAMRonized result objects from the parsed report:

for result in parsed_report:
      print(result)

Alternatively, you can use the .write attribute to export all results left in the generator to a file (if a filepath isn't provided, this will write to stdout).

parsed_report.write('hAMRonized_abricate_report.tsv')

You can also output a json formatted hAMRonized report:

parsed_report.write('all_hAMRonized_abricate_report.json', output_format='json')

If you want to write multiple reports to one file, this .write method can accept append_mode=True to append rather than overwrite the output file and not include the header (in tsv format).

parsed_report.write('all_hAMRonized_abricate_report.tsv', append_mode=True)

Parsers

Parsers needing tested (both automated and just sanity checking output), see test.sh for example invocations. `

1. abricate
2. ariba
3. NCBI AMRFinderPlus
4. RGI (includes RGI-BWT)
5. resfinder
6. resfinder4
7. sraX
8. deepARG
9. kmerresistance
10. srst2
11. staramr
12. c-sstar
13. amrplusplus
14. resfams
15. groot

Parsers excluded as needing variant specification to implement:

1. mykrobe
2. pointfinder

Issues

Coding

• sanity checks need done

• automated tests need added

• output to file options (with appending and check headers) should be added

Specification

• mandatory fields: gene_symbol and gene_name are confusing and not usually both present (only consistently used in AFP). Means tools either need 1:2 mapping i.e. single output field maps to both gene_symbol and gene_name OR have fragile text splitting of single field that won't be robust to databases changes. Current solution is 1:2 mapping e.g. staramr

• inconsistent nomenclature of terms being used in specification fields: target, query, subject, reference. Need to stick to one name for sequence with which the database is being searched, and one the hit that results from that search.

• variant specification needed to fully exploit ariba (or make mykrobe and pointfinder worth implementing): discard these tools for now

• sequence_identity: is sequence type specific %id amino acids != %id nucleotide but does this matter?

• coverage_depth seems to include both tool fields that are average depth of read and just plain overall read-count,

• contig_id isn't general enough when some tools this ID naturally corresponds to a read_name (deepARG), individual ORF (resfams), or protein sequence (AFP with protein input): change to query_id_name or similar?

Implementation Details

hAMRonizedResult Data Structure

The hAMRonization specification is implemented in the hAMRonizedResult dataclass.

This is a simple datastructure that uses positional and key-word args to distinguish mandatory from optional hAMRonization fields. It also uses type-hinting to validate the supplied values are of the correct type

Each parser follows a similar strategy, using a common interface. This has been designed to match the biopython SeqIO parse function

>>> import hAMRonization
>>> filename = "abricate_report.tsv"
>>> metadata = {"analysis_software_version": "1.0.1", "reference_database_version": "2019-Jul-28"}
>>> for result in hAMRonization.parse(filename, metadata, "abricate"):
...    print(result)

Where the final argument to the hAMRonization.parse command is whichever tool is being parsed.

hAMRonizedResultIterator

An abstract iterator is then implemented to ingest a given AMR tool's report (via the appropriate subclassed implementation), hAMRonize results i.e. translate the original inputs to the fields in the hAMRonization specification, and yield a stream of hAMRonizedResult dataclasses.

This iterator also implements a write function to enable outputting the contents to a output stream or filehandle in either tsv or json format.

Tool-specific Iterators

Each tool has a specific subclass of this abstract hAMRonizedResultIterator e.g. AbricateIO.AbricateIterator.

These include an attribute containing the mapping of the tools original output report fields to the hAMRonized specification fields (self.field_mapping), as well as handling specifying any additional required metadata.

The parse method of these subclasses then implements the tool-specific parsing logic required. This is typically a simple csv.DictReader but can be more complex such as the json parsing of resfinder output, or the modification of output fields required to better fit some tools into the hAMRonization specification.

Adding a new parser

1. Add an entry into _RequiredToolMetadata and _FormatToIterator in hAMRonziation/__init__.py which points to the appropriate ToolNameIO.py containing the tool's Iterator subclass

2. In ToolNameIO.py add a required_metadata list containing any mandatory fields not implemented by the tool

3. Then add a class ToolNameIterator(hAMRonizedResultIterator) and implement the __init__ methods with the approriate mapping (self.field_mapping), and metadata (self.metadata).

4. To this class, add a parse method which reads an opened file stream into a dictionary per line/result (matching the keys of self.field_mapping) and yields the output of self.hAMRonize being applied to that dictionary.

5. Finally, to add a CLI parser for the tool, create a python file in the parsers directory:

   from hAMRonization import Interfaces
   if __name__ == '__main__': 
       Interfaces.cli_parser('toolname')
   

Alternatively, the hAMRonized_parser.py can be used as a common script interface to all implemented parsers. Note this needs the proper subparser handling to manage --help correctly.

Language-Agnostic Schema(s)

We currently have four language-agnostic schemas to describe our data structure, these need updated to latest specification, and used in automatic validation of outputs.

1. JSON Schema (about)
2. JSON-LD Schema (about)
3. Avro Schema (about)
4. SALAD Schema (about)

Test Data

This needs tidied, currently there is a test.sh shellscript in parsers folder which invokes all the individual parsers on files in test/data/raw_outputs/.

There is also an older set of test data in test/data, containing:

1. An example output report
2. A 'harmonized' .json conversion of the report, where field names have been mapped to their 'harmonized' counterparts
3. A 'harmonized' .tsv output

FAQ

• What's the difference between an Antimicrobial Resistance 'Result' and 'Report'?
  • For the purposes of this project, a 'Report' is an output file (or collection of files) from an AMR analysis tool. A 'Result' is a single entry in a report. For example, a single line in an abricate report file is a single Antimicrobial Resistance 'Result'.

Setting up a Development Environment

git clone https://github.com/pha4ge/hAMRonization
conda create -n hAMRonization 
conda activate hAMRonization
cd hAMRonization
pip install -e .