By default partis assumes each input file contains sequences from only a single locus, specified with --species and --locus.
In order to run on multiple loci, you must set the --paired-loci option.
This also allows the incorporation of heavy/light pairing info, for instance from 10x single cell data, which will dramatically improve partitioning performance.
A simple invocation would be:
partis partition --infname <fasta-input-file> --paired-loci --paired-outdir <output-dir>
As usual, this will first cache parameters if they don't exist; also as usual, if you want to use more advanced parameter caching options, it's best to run the cache-parameters step by hand.
If this is indeed 10x single cell data, partis will automatically extract the droplet id from each sequence id in your input file, and use this to write pairing info to a json/yaml file (which it'll pass internally with --input-metafnames).
With current 10x conventions, this means that sequence ids look like "AAACGGGCAAGCGAGT-1_contig_2", and all sequences with the same bit before the first "-" are from the same droplet.
You can also run the pairing info extraction by hand (for instance if 10x changes their naming conventions) with bin/extract-pairing-info.py <10x-fasta-input-file> <meta-info-file>, then pass the resulting --input-metafnames to partis.
Both this extraction script and bin/partis take the arguments --droplet-id-separators and --droplet-id-indices to provide some customization as to which bits of the sequence id specify the droplet id.
Alternatively, you can pass in your own pairing info with the paired-uids key in --input-metafnames as described here.
Partis will then use bin/split-loci.py to split the input fasta file into separate files for each locus, and run on those individually.
Everything of potential future use (including parameters) is written to --paired-outdir.
After partitioning each locus individually, it uses pairing information to merge these single-chain partitions into "joint"/"paired" partitions.
This involves, for example, splitting clusters from one chain whose component sequences' paired sequences have different cdr3 lengths (in the other chain).
You can also run the merging step by itself on existing partition output with the merge-paired-partitions action.
The files in --paired-outdir are arranged in a standardized way, although not all actions create or use all files.
The paired info (and any other info for --input-metafnames) will be in meta.yaml.
Assuming that bin/split-loci.py has been run (either automatically by partis, or by hand), the top-level dir will have three fasta files ig{h,k,l}.fa with all sequences for each locus, as well as failed.fa for any that could not be assigned.
There is a directory parameters/ with subdirs for each locus.
The single-chain partitions for each locus are in single-chain/partition-ig{h,k,l}.yaml.
If pairing info was available, there will be subdirs igh+igk/ and igh+igl/ so that heavy chain sequences can be further split into those pairing with each light chain, so with ig{h,k}.fa and ig{h,l}.fa.
The joint/merged partitions are also written to these paired subdirs.
Finally, the joint/merged heavy chain partitions from both paired subdirs are concatenated into partition-igh.yaml in the main/parent dir (there are also corresponding light chain files, but they're just links to the paired subdirs, since there'd be nothing to concatenate).
In paired simulation output directories, there will also be all-seqs.fa, which contains all sequences from all chains, and meta.yaml, with meta info (locus and pairing info) for all sequences from all chains.
Partis can fix pairing info that is quite ambiguous, i.e. when there is more than one cell per droplet. This disambiguation uses single chain partition information, and is always run before paired clustering. It will print a summary of what it's doing, for instance with the fraction of sequences paired with different chains:
and as always you can turn on --debug 1 (or --debug-paired-clustering) for more detail.
To give a very rough idea of performance, for example with 10 cells per droplet, sequences in families larger than 3 are correctly paired around 80-85% of the time.
You can try various other scenarios in simulation with the args --mean-cells-per-droplet, --constant-cells-per-droplet, and --fraction-of-reads-to-remove; pair cleaning performance plots will be written if --plotdir is set.
Partis also has the option --pair-unpaired-seqs-with-paired-family to approximately pair sequences from a bulk data sample using pair info from a matched single cell sample (i.e. where the samples are drawn from the same pool of B cells).
Here "approximately" means that, depending on the ratio of bulk to single cell sample sizes, and on the family size, we can pair bulk sequences with the correct family (but not usually the correct sequence).
For instance with a bulk sample 5-10 times the size of the single cell sample, bulk sequences in families of 10 or larger are paired with the correct family around 80-90% of the time (and when they're paired with the wrong family, it's usually with a family that is essentially indistinguishable to the correct one, i.e. with naive sequence closer than 3 nucleotides).
To try out other scenarios in simulation you can use the arg --bulk-data-fraction.
In order to use the selection metrics to choose Abs, see here.
Setting --paired-loci during simulation will result in paired heavy/light repertoires.
For each family, this first selects a light chain locus according to k:l fractions --light-chain-fractions, then generates a tree to use for both loci, then for each locus simulates a rearrangement event, and finally selects a joint/common uid str for each sequence pair (e.g. 3434789659464607950-igh and 3434789659464607950-igk).
For example
partis simulate --paired-loci --parameter-dir <old-paired-outdir>/parameters --paired-outdir <simu-output-dir>
where <old-paired-outdir> is a --paired-outdir from a previous inference run, which will contain parameters in its /parameters subdirectory.
As usual, you can also simulate from scratch:
partis simulate --paired-loci --simulate-from-scratch --paired-outdir <simu-output-dir>
Finally, the affinity/selection-based simulation in bin/bcr-phylo-run.py also has a --paired-loci option, which functions similarly.