VariationAnalysis

This project provides:

• A deep learning model training and evaluation framework (codename Matcha). Builds on DL4J and provides abstractions and organizing principles useful when training and evaluating models in practice (see doc). Supports both CPU and GPU model training and inference. We distribute the CPU version on maven, but you can build the project and choose the GPU maven profile to compile a CUDA version on the appropriate hardware.
• A tool to train DL models for calling somatic variations. An example of using the framework for a specific domain.
• A preview of a tool to train DL models for calling genotypes. This is a straightforward application of the Matcha framework and takes advantage of ground-truth genotypes established for specific quality control samples.

Download

You can download the binary distribution here: * Release 1.2 (January 2017).

Tutorials

We provide a tutorial for the somatic calling models. It is strongly recommended that you read the tutorial at this time. It demonstrates an end-to-end application where we collect data, train a model, and use it in an application. The domain is genomics, but you will get an idea how the framework can help with deep learning projects.

A second tutorial describes how to train genotype models. Note that this feature is an early preview.

Two of the tools demonstrated in the tutorial have been developed with the framework:

• train-somatic.sh. This tool implements training with early stopping.
• predict.sh. This tool uses a trained model to predict on a dataset. It provides features to filter results which are useful for error analysis.
• search-hyper-params.sh. A tool to help determine which hyper-parameters result in models with higher performance. It takes the number of models to evaluate and a train-somatic.sh command line, generates random combinations of parameter values, and run train-somatic.sh. Performance is written in the model-conditions.txt file after each model is trained. This makes it easy to pick conditions that work best.

The somatic tools also include:

• show.sh. This tool also helps with error analysis. It shows input records in various formats for the examples identified by the predict.sh tool.
• split.sh. This tool splits a training set into different files. Useful to create training, validation and test splits.
• randomize.sh. This tool takes a number of training sets and shuffles the records in them. Useful to remove any order (i.e., correlation due to genomic position). Scales to files with hundreds of million of examples.

Interested in genotype calling with deep learning models? Have a look at the preview of the genotype module (tutorial and doc).

See the project on GitHub --- Learn more about the Campagne Laboratory