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 # bionix
-Nix functions for use in bioinformatics, and a sample DE analysis
+
+Bionix is a set of [Nix](http://nixos.org/nix) expressions for specifying and
+executing bioinformatics pipelines. It is currently a work in progress, so
+documentation is sparse.
+
+## Getting started
+
+Install [Nix](http://nixos.org/nix) and then try `nix-build` in the examples
+directory.
+
+## Example pipeline
+
+The examples directory shows a simple pipeline in the call.nix and default.nix
+files. You can build it with `nix-build` in the examples directory. The result
+will be linked to ./result, which in this example case is an empty VCF file.
+
+## Contact
+
+Please come chat with us at [#bionix:cua0.org](http://matrix.to/#/#bionix:cua0.org).
diff --git a/example/call.nix b/example/call.nix
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+# This is an example pipeline specification to do multi-sample variant calling
+# with the Platypus variant caller. Each input is preprocessed by aligning
+# against a reference genome (defaults to GRCH38), fixing mate information, and
+# marking duplicates. Finally platypus is called over all samples.
+{bionix ? import <bionix> {}
+,nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}
+,inputs
+,ref ? null}:
+
+with bionix;
+
+let
+  preprocess = f:
+    samtools.markdup {}
+      (samtools.sort {}
+        (samtools.fixmate {}
+          (bwa.align {ref = if ref == null then bionix.ref.grch38.seq else ref;} f)));
+
+  in platypus.call {} (map preprocess inputs)
diff --git a/example/default.nix b/example/default.nix
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+# This example uses the pipelines specified in the call.nix file on the
+# synthetic data in this directory.
+with import <bionix> {};
+
+let
+
+  # List of input samples
+  inputs = [
+    # Sample 1
+    {
+      input1 = fetchFastQ {
+        url = "https://github.com/PapenfussLab/bionix/raw/master/example/sample1-1.fq";
+        sha256 = "1m3vc248mbr4v56459q4xsklznssgqb35lwhwk1i9qvxqm7c72nq";
+      };
+
+      input2 =  fetchFastQ {
+      url = "https://github.com/PapenfussLab/bionix/raw/master/example/sample1-2.fq";
+        sha256 = "13fqvdb5r2sidi2i0s3ifg8gyxp8kibpxc3cbiw07d5zcn3g479x";
+      };
+    }
+
+    # Sample 2
+    {
+      input1 = fetchFastQ {
+        url = "https://github.com/PapenfussLab/bionix/raw/master/example/sample2-1.fq";
+        sha256 = "0c6ik4smsw2kb8xbbci80d00c24klk6mqd2a71y4v9hmpnc42fmr";
+      };
+
+      input2 =  fetchFastQ {
+        url = "https://github.com/PapenfussLab/bionix/raw/master/example/sample2-2.fq";
+        sha256 = "0zvrkm2m69lwfi89hzxsbnkp4i6cszh7c624l1qwmd4s6gh7vfcx";
+      };
+    }
+  ];
+
+  # The reference for the synthetic data
+  ref = fetchFastA {
+    url = "https://github.com/PapenfussLab/bionix/raw/master/example/ref.fa";
+    sha256 = "06gphhh40h3mvwvs2m51qc3rpih8mcs8frhd48l94d5bzwfhb2hc";
+  };
+
+in import ./call.nix {inherit inputs ref;}