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Gary
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Hi,
We run TopHat2 for 6 RNA-Seq alignment on a local Galaxy (Ubuntu system), and obtain bam files. However, when I use samtools to convert bam to sam on my MacBook Pro notebook (OS X Yosemite 10.10.5), and it shows error messages: can't allocate region (the detail below). Could you help me how to deal with this issue? Thank you so much.
Best,
Gary
gary > ll
total 12010872
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 gary staff 1.6K Mar 10 10:55 BamToSamToHTSeq.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gary staff 1.0G Mar 10 10:39 Chuong569_E9_thigh_F_m3.bam
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gary staff 1.1G Mar 10 10:43 Chuong570_E9_thigh_F_m4.bam
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gary staff 926M Mar 10 10:39 Chuong571_E9_thigh_F_m5.bam
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gary staff 947M Mar 10 10:40 Chuong572_E12_S_m3.bam
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gary staff 982M Mar 10 10:43 Chuong573_E12_S_m4.bam
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gary staff 882M Mar 10 10:39 Chuong574_E12_S_m5.bam
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gary staff 47M Mar 3 10:40 galGal4UCSCensGene81_TableBrowser.gtf
gary > samtools view -h -o Chuong572_E12_S_Grem1_m3.sam Chuong572_E12_S_m3.bam
samtools(1075,0x7fff7690b300) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=18446744073226854400) failed (error code=3)
*** error: s
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Segmentation fault: 11
gary > samtools view -h -o Chuong573_E12_S_Grem1_m4.sam Chuong573_E12_S_m4.bam
samtools(1077,0x7fff7690b300) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=18446744072434704384) failed (error code=3)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Segmentation fault: 11
gary > samtools view -h -o Chuong574_E12_S_Grem1_m5.sam Chuong574_E12_S_m5.bam
samtools(1079,0x7fff7690b300) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=18446744071942492160) failed (error code=3)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Segmentation fault: 11
gary > samtools view -h -o Chuong569_E9_thigh_F_m3.sam Chuong569_E9_thigh_F_m3.bam
Segmentation fault: 11
gary > samtools view -h -o Chuong570_E9_thigh_F_m4.sam Chuong570_E9_thigh_F_m4.bam
samtools(1084,0x7fff7690b300) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=18446744072328564736) failed (error code=3)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Segmentation fault: 11
gary > samtools view -h -o Chuong571_E9_thigh_F_m5.sam Chuong571_E9_thigh_F_m5.bam
samtools(1086,0x7fff7690b300) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=1580085248) failed (error code=3)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
I am just curious: you have a script or document BamToSamToHTSeq.txt on top of your list. Do you try to convert bam to sam in order to read sam with HTSeq? Why? HTSeq for python can read bam files natively:
and it can write to BAM with BAM_Writer() as well, so if you have to convert bam to sam you can do it with HTSeq.
Regarding the error - you do not have enough RAM (which is strange, unless as genomax2 pointed out you compiled your self and now there is a memory leak for yet unknown reason).
I am not sure if this will help you, but my first idea is to try using your system's installation tool like (instead of make):
otherwise, my second idea is to try other options with samtools like this:
or this:
my last idea is to try another version of samtools (older one?) and, finally, test if bamtools is any better for that particular task: https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
This is
macOSsono apt-get.then use (install) ruby and homebrew and use it for getting the latest samtools as genomax2 suggested.
Homebrew will be very useful for some other bioinformatics and geospatial tools later on.
By the way, ruby is another good thing to learn as it is very good for string processing and can do things beyond awk. It is easier and prettier from my perspective for text processing then python. Then you Rails and things get more fun for web =) And you never know what languages will be used in the organization you are going to work in the future or in programs you will need to change, maintain or find bugs at.
oh, I thought that was the topic starter, not you =) We all were writing at the same time, so I did not know he uses MacOS when I posted my comment
Thank you so much. I have tried your suggestions, but they don’t work on my MacBook Pro (the detail below). By the way, I don’t have cmake, and have not installed bamtools successfully. I only use htseq-count for RNA-Seq quantification, and you can see my BamToSamToHTSeq.txt file below. I convert bam to sam before quantification, because my htseq-count cannot find pysam, although I have installed pysam several times. The below shows directories I can find pysam on my notebook now.
Because I can run samtools to convert other RNA-Seq bam files aligned by STAR on Partek Flow (the detail of one example below), I wonder whether there are some errors of these bam files aligned by TopHat2 on a local Galaxy. I don’t know whether you can help to check one of my trouble bam files (http://68.181.92.180/~Gary/temporal/ErrorOfBamToSam.bam)? Many thanks.
I tried your file http://68.181.92.180/~Gary/temporal/ErrorOfBamToSam.bam
I also get segmentation fault on that file. Where did you get it from? The header is broken in it. Looks like somebody concatenated text file with sam header with bam file.
Thanks a lot. I cannot know this problem without your help. In my previous lab, they build a local Galaxy, and use TopHat2 to run RNA-Seq alignments. These bam files were downloaded from their local Galaxy, and uploaded to a Network-attached storage (NAS) by them. Then I downloaded these bam files from the NAS. What other information I can provide for figuring out this issue?
Do you think that I still need to install a new version of samtools? After googling, I know how to use homebrew to install samtools (http://www.danielecook.com/installing-tabix-and-samtools-on-mac/), but I still don’t know how to uninstall my old version of samtools properly. I am not really familiar with samtools, and could you help me? Many thanks.
No, other version of samtools will not help. You need to find the proper bam or sam file along that chain. The best is to investigate where the problem arose together with your collaborators and make sure this had not affected others, not going to be repeated and that data was not lost for you and others.
If you have so many different parties in the chain, checking for data consistency on every step is a good idea. This can be stored in a log file that is stored in the header in @CO lines https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf
And you tried to install PySam on your Mac with no luck? (I have no idea if this is possible, but remember that python on Mac and updated to some dependencies is very hard to work around on Mac, but there is a way to have a separate python not relate to system's python).
You are right. One of my colleagues who can write codes for Matlab has helped me to install PySam on my Mac several times, but it didn’t work. It is the reason why I use sam, but not bam files to run RNA-Seq quantification by htseq-count. When I have time, I would like to deal with this issue. Do you have any suggestions, or related websites I can learn? Thanks a lot.
Use featureCounts in future for counting. That way you can use BAM files directly.
I will. Thanks a lot.
What version of
samtoolsare you using? How much memory do you have on this MacBook (standard 8 GB)? Did you compile samtools yourself?I use samtools 1.2 (the detail below). There are 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory on my MacBook Pro. I don't compile samtools by myself. In fact, I don't know how to compile samtools. Many thanks.
gary > samtools --version
samtools 1.2
Using htslib 1.2.1
Copyright (C) 2015 Genome Research Ltd.
You could use homebrew to install the latest
samtoolswhich is currently in v.1.3.1Thanks a lot. Would you please show me the command line how to use homebrew to upgrade samtools?
where did you get your samtools from and how you installed it?
Sorry, I don't remember where I got my samtools, and how I installed it.
I have to correct some information. If "make" means I compile samtools by myself, I could compile samtools by myself. However, I don't remember where I downloaded samtools and how I installed it. So, it is hard to say whether I compile it or not.
Try removing samtools and installing it with homebrew or download in https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/download/1.3.1/samtools-1.3.1.tar.bz2 from http://www.htslib.org/download/ and tell us if problem is still there, please.
Did you mix up -i and -o in your samtools command by any chance?
Because I can run samtools to convert bam to sam for other RNA-Seq samples, I think it is not an issue in my case. Please see an example detail below.
Perhaps you can try running Samtool's regression tests to see if your installation works as expected ? Here is the link to the test directory at version 1.2 on GitHub.