cptools2

Running CellProfiler on computing clusters. This is aimed towards the University of Edinburgh's Eddie3 cluster with the staging workflow.

Installation:

python setup.py install --user

Wiki:

For more details see the wiki.

Example:

cptools2 can use a configuration file to list the jobs parameters.

For example if we have a a file named awesome_experiment-1.yml containing:

experiment : path/to/imageXpress/experiment
chunk : 46
pipeline : /path/to/cellprofiler/pipeline.cppipe
location : /path/to/scratch/space
commands location : /home/user

We could run this as cptools2 awesome_experiment-1.yml

This produces a directory containing a loaddata file for each task, and three text files containing staging commands, cellprofiler commands, and de-staging commands that can be run as three concurrent array jobs.

A script named YYYY-MM-DD-h:m:s_SUBMIT_JOBS.sh is created which will submit the three jobs in the correct order. This can be run with ./YYYY-MM-DD-h:m:s_SUBMIT_JOBS.sh or bash YYYY-MM-DD-h:m:s_SUBMIT_JOBS.sh on a login node (the ones that can submit jobs to the queue).

yaml config options

There are configuration details you can add to a job:

• experiment : path to an ImageXpress experiment
• chunk number of imagesets per job
• pipeline : path to a cellprofiler pipeline
• location : path to where to store the loaddata modules, staged data and output
• commands location : path to where to store the qsub array commands
• remove plate : plate names in experiment to be removed
• add plate :
  • experiment : path to another ImageXpress experiment
  • plates : plate name(s) in the above experiment
• new_ix: if true/yes then will treat filepaths as from the new ImageXpress

i.e we could remove some plates from an experiment, and also include some plates from a different experiment

experiment: /path/to/imageXpress/experiment

# remove two plates from current experiment
remove plate:
    - plate_1
    - plate_2

# add plates from a separate experiment
add plate:
    - experiment : /path/to/different/experiment
    - plates:
        - plate_exp2_1
        - plate_exp2_2

chunk: 96

pipeline: /pipelines/pipeline_1.cppipe

location: /path/to/scratch/space

commands location: /path/to/scratch space

We can also use add plate without a top-level experiment tag to add a few plates from a large experiment.

add plate:
    - experiment: /path/to/large/experiment
    - plates:
        - plate_1
        - plate_2
        - plate_3
chunk : 46
pipeline : /path/to/cellprofiler/pipeline.cppipe
location : /path/to/scratch/space
commands location : /home/user

NOTE: The default is expecting old ImageXpress filepaths (for backwarsd compatibility), in order to correctly parse metadata from the new IX paths you can specify in the config file with new_ix.

experiment : path/to/imageXpress/experiment
chunk : 46
pipeline : /path/to/cellprofiler/pipeline.cppipe
location : /path/to/scratch/space
commands location : /home/user
new_ix: true

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