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Add HLA-HD v1.7.1 module and BAM-input subworkflow

Summary

  • Adds modules/msk/hlahd — nf-core-style module for HLA-HD v1.7.1 (high-resolution HLA typing from paired FASTQ)
  • Adds subworkflows/msk/hlahd_from_bam — end-to-end BAM-to-HLA-typing workflow
  • Adds test data entries to tests/config/test_data.config (data on hlahd branch of test-datasets repo)
  • Adds docs/ci.md documenting the nf-test CI pipeline, written while debugging this PR's CI failure (see below)

Module: modules/msk/hlahd

Container mskcc.jfrog.io/omicswf-docker-prod-local/mskcc-omics-workflows/hlahd:1.7.1
Input [ meta, fastq_1, fastq_2 ]
Output result (final allele calls), result_per_locus (per-gene .est.txt files), versions
  • Min-read threshold configurable via ext.args2 (default: 100)
  • Includes stub for pipeline dry-runs

Subworkflow: subworkflows/msk/hlahd_from_bam

Chains five modules to go from coordinate-sorted BAM to HLA allele calls:

[ meta, bam, bai ]
        |
  SAMTOOLS_VIEW         extract HLA region (configured via ext.args)
        |
  GATK4_REVERTSAM       optional BQSR reversion (skip_revert_sam param)
        |
  SAMTOOLS_COLLATE      name-collate reads (required before samtools fastq)
        |
  SAMTOOLS_FASTQ        BAM -> paired FASTQ
        |
  HLAHD                 HLA allele calling
        |
[ result, result_per_locus, versions ]

The skip_revert_sam parameter controls whether GATK4 RevertSam runs. Set to true when the input BAM has no BQSR applied.

SAMTOOLS_COLLATE runs unconditionally regardless of skip_revert_sam — see "CI fix" below for why.

Test data

Region Coordinates (GRCh37)
HLA-A 6:29910247-29913661
HLA-B 6:31321649-31324989
HLA-C 6:31236526-31239913

~21k reads, ~3.3MB across 4 files (BAM + BAI + paired FASTQ).

Example output (test_sample_final.result.txt)

A       HLA-A*01:01:01  HLA-A*29:02:01
B       HLA-B*08:01:01  HLA-B*44:46
C       HLA-C*07:01:01  HLA-C*16:26
DRB1    Not typed       Not typed

Class II loci are "Not typed" as expected — only class I regions are included in the test data.

Tests

All 5 nf-test tests pass with deterministic snapshot matching:

Module tests (2):

  • hlahd - fastq pair - result txt — real HLA-HD run, verifies final result md5
  • hlahd - fastq pair - stub — stub run, verifies versions output

Subworkflow tests (3):

  • hlahd_from_bam - bam - with revert sam - result — full pipeline with GATK4 RevertSam
  • hlahd_from_bam - bam - skip revert sam - result — pipeline skipping RevertSam
  • hlahd_from_bam - bam - stub — stub run

Both revert/skip-revert paths produce identical final calls.

CI fix: skip_revert_sam dropped ~99% of reads

CI was red on Test | docker | 4 / Test | singularity | 4 (the
skip revert sam test) for a while: SAMTOOLS_VIEW's coordinate-sorted BAM
output was fed straight into SAMTOOLS_FASTQ when skip_revert_sam = true.
samtools fastq needs name-grouped input to pair mates; on a
coordinate-sorted BAM it discarded ~99% of reads as singletons (verified: 8443/8501
discarded direct vs. 2183/8501 after samtools collate). That starved
HLA-A of coverage and it came back "Not typed" — the with_revert_sam path
only worked because GATK4_REVERTSAM defaults to a queryname sort, masking
the missing step.

Fix: added SAMTOOLS_COLLATE (nf-core module) unconditionally before
SAMTOOLS_FASTQ. Declared as a component dependency in
hlahd_from_bam's meta.yml, which CI fetches automatically via
.github/scripts/install-components.sh — see docs/ci.md
(added in this PR) for how that mechanism works. All 16 checks passed on
the first version of this fix.

Follow-up: components: schema didn't match the real nf-core CLI

While testing "does this subworkflow actually install into a pipeline"
(not just pass our own CI), nf-core subworkflows install hlahd_from_bam
against this branch crashed with AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'. hlahd_from_bam's meta.yml was the first subworkflow
in the repo to declare an external (nf-core) components: dependency, and
the shape used (- name: ..., git_remote: ..., org_path: ...) only matched
what our own install-components.sh script parses — not what
nf-core subworkflows install itself expects
(components_utils.py::get_components_to_install, which wants the dict
nested under the component name: - samtools/collate: {git_remote: ...}).
So this passed CI fine but would have silently broken for the first
downstream pipeline to try installing it.

Fixed by switching meta.yml to nf-core's real nested shape and updating
install-components.sh to parse it the same way, so both consumers agree
on one schema. Re-verified both: install-components.sh still fetches all
4 dependencies locally, and nf-core subworkflows install hlahd_from_bam
now succeeds end-to-end in a scratch pipeline — installs the local hlahd
module plus all 4 transitive nf-core modules, correctly recorded in
modules.json. Documented in docs/ci.md.

Checklist

  • Module follows nf-core conventions (meta map, ext.args, versions.yml)
  • All 5 nf-test tests passing
  • Snapshot files committed
  • Test data on hlahd branch in test-datasets repo
  • meta.yml complete for both module and subworkflow
  • Container URL switched to prod registry

johnoooh and others added 6 commits March 5, 2026 11:33
Module runs HLA-HD for HLA typing from paired-end FASTQ input.
Container-only (not available on conda/bioconda).
Private container built from JFrog-hosted binary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stub test and real test using HLA-region FASTQ from test-datasets hlahd branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Composes samtools/view, gatk4/revertsam (optional), samtools/fastq,
and hlahd modules into a BAM-to-HLA-typing pipeline.
Tests cover both skip_revert_sam paths plus stub test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Also add the nf-test snapshot file that was missing from prior commits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…pshots

- Fix output globs: results are at <prefix>/result/, not <prefix>/
  - result: ${prefix}/result/${prefix}_final.result.txt
  - result_per_locus: ${prefix}/result/${prefix}_*.est.txt
- Switch container URL to dev registry while awaiting next prod release
- Add nextflow.config for subworkflow tests (ext.prefix per process to
  avoid GATK4_REVERTSAM input/output name collision)
- Regenerate all snapshots against new HLA class I test data that
  produces actual allele calls (A*01:01:01, B*08:01:01, C*07:01:01)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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johnoooh and others added 22 commits March 20, 2026 11:24
Add docker/login-action step to authenticate with mskcc.jfrog.io before
running tests. Login is conditional on docker profile and credentials being
present, so conda/singularity profiles are unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switch from default HLA_gene.split.txt symlink to the explicit 3.50.0
dictionary release file. Refresh module and subworkflow snapshots to
account for the additional loci rows (E, G, H, J, K, L, V) emitted by
the newer split; class I calls are unchanged.
…onventions

The hlahd_from_bam subworkflow imports three nf-core modules
(samtools/view, gatk4/revertsam, samtools/fastq) that live under
.gitignored modules/nf-core/, so CI checkouts cannot resolve the
includes. Add a tiny bash + yq + git sparse-checkout installer that
reads components: from each subworkflow meta.yml and fetches foreign
components into modules/<org_path>/<name>/ before nf-test runs. No
nf-core/tools dependency, no modules.json.

Also modernize the subworkflow against current nf-core/modules
conventions: SAMTOOLS_VIEW now takes 5 inputs (added bed channel);
samtools/{view,fastq} and gatk4/revertsam emit versions via topic
channels rather than emit: versions, so drop the corresponding
ch_versions.mix() lines. HLAHD itself still uses classic emit, so
its mix line stays.

meta.yml components: upgraded to the dict shape (name + git_remote +
org_path) so the installer can resolve the foreign three; hlahd
stays bare-string for local resolution.

Snapshot regeneration is intentionally deferred -- the new run
produces 1 versions.yml hash per test (HLAHD only) where the old
snap had 3 or 4. Will be updated in a follow-up commit using the
hashes CI reports.
Re-recorded all 3 tests against the modernized subworkflow (5-arg
SAMTOOLS_VIEW; topic-versions for samtools/{view,fastq} and
gatk4/revertsam):

- with revert sam:  result.txt md5 unchanged (e51e94f4...) -- HLA
  calls byte-identical to prior typing. versions: 4 hashes -> 1
  (HLAHD only).
- stub:             versions: 4 hashes -> 1.
- skip revert sam:  result.txt md5 changed (e51e94f4 -> f2b54c8b),
  versions: 3 hashes -> 1. The new md5 is "all Not typed" output --
  the previous snap matched with-revert-sam by coincidence and
  masked a known issue: when GATK4_REVERTSAM is bypassed, samtools
  fastq runs on a coord-sorted BAM and emits singletons, so HLAHD
  cannot type. Tracked as a follow-up in the project README; not a
  blocker for #241.

Local validation: nf-test 0.9.4, nextflow 25.10.4, docker profile,
public docker.io/orgeraj/hlahd:1.7.1 stand-in (HLAHD binary is
identical to the JFrog image; container URL in modules/msk/hlahd
unchanged).
The hlahd module pointed at omicswf-docker-dev-local, where the 1.7.1
image is no longer available, causing docker shards to fail with
manifest unknown despite a successful login. Singularity additionally
failed because the registry-login step was gated to profile==docker
and apptainer does not consume Docker's auth file regardless.

- Point hlahd container at omicswf-docker-prod-local (1.7.1 published)
- Export APPTAINER_DOCKER_*/SINGULARITY_DOCKER_* for singularity shards
  so apptainer can authenticate against mskcc.jfrog.io directly
The dev tag (1.7.1) was rotated out of omicswf-docker-dev-local, so
both docker and singularity now return manifest unknown for the dev
path. Switching back to prod, where 1.7.1 is published.

The prod image's PATH does not include /opt/hlahd/current/bin (likely
built from a Dockerfile predating the ENV PATH directive), causing
hlahd.sh to fail on bare-name calls to its sibling binaries
(pm_extract, stfr, get_diff_fasta, etc.). Prepending the install bin
directory to PATH in the script makes the module robust regardless of
how the image is built and unblocks CI immediately.
Snapshot regenerated locally against docker.io/orgeraj/hlahd:1.7.1
(deterministic build) using the new HLA-A-only sliced test data.
Module container switched to the dev JFrog image, which mirrors the
build that produces this snapshot — prod rebuild was producing
divergent B/C calls.
…ublishes

JFrog dev tag was missing (manifest unknown). docker.io/orgeraj/hlahd:1.7.1
is the deterministic build the snapshot was generated against. Swap back
to the JFrog dev/prod image once it is republished.
Setting APPTAINER_DOCKER_USERNAME/PASSWORD globally caused apptainer to
send JFrog basic-auth to every docker:// pull, so ghcr.io rejected
unrelated images (neoantigen-editing, neoantigen-utils-base, etc.) with
403 across all singularity shards.

Replace with a Docker-format auth file at ~/.apptainer/docker-config.json
(and ~/.singularity/docker-config.json) keyed to mskcc.jfrog.io only.
JFrog pulls still authenticate; pulls from ghcr.io/quay.io/docker.io go
anonymous as before.
with-revert path produces test_sample_final.result.txt md5 7ba486d3...,
matching the regenerated hlahd module snapshot.
PR #58 in mskcc-omics-workflows/containers fixed the hlahd build but the
dev-build workflow is misrouted via shared JFROG_CONTAINER_REPO var, so
the fixed image landed in omicswf-docker-prod-local rather than dev-local.
Point the module there until the publish workflow is fixed.
johnoooh added 5 commits May 14, 2026 12:28
Test data is sliced to HLA-A only, so only the A line carries real
biological signal. Whole-file md5 of test_sample_final.result.txt was
brittle to incidental drift in class II / non-class-I lines whenever
the container's bowtie2 dictionary was regenerated (e.g. PR #58 in
containers repo). Switch the snapshot assertion to a content match
on lines starting with "A\t" only.

Also drop the temporary DEBUG_FINAL_RESULT println from the module
test now that the diagnosis is in hand.

Snapshots regenerated for module and subworkflow against the
PR #58 image (mskcc.jfrog.io/omicswf-docker-prod-local/.../hlahd:1.7.1).
skip_revert_sam=true fed SAMTOOLS_VIEW's coordinate-sorted BAM output
straight into SAMTOOLS_FASTQ, which needs name-grouped input to pair
mates correctly. On a coordinate-sorted BAM it discarded ~99% of reads
as singletons, starving HLA-A of coverage and returning "Not typed" in
CI (docker|4, singularity|4 on PR #241). The with-revert-sam path only
worked because GATK4_REVERTSAM's default queryname sort incidentally
collated reads as a side effect.

Add SAMTOOLS_COLLATE unconditionally before SAMTOOLS_FASTQ so pairing
is correct regardless of branch, instead of relying on that side
effect. Verified locally with --profile docker: all 3 subworkflow
tests pass, including the previously-failing skip-revert-sam case,
against the existing (unchanged) snapshot.
Add docs/ci.md explaining the nf-test GitHub Actions pipeline
(change detection, sharding, the nf-test-action composite action,
confirm-pass gate), with a focus on the piece that's easy to miss:
how a subworkflow's meta.yml `components:` list drives
install-components.sh to sparse-checkout nf-core modules at CI time,
since modules/nf-core and subworkflows/nf-core are gitignored here.

Written while fixing PR #241, where hlahd_from_bam needed a new
samtools/collate dependency declared this way.
meta.yml's components: dict entries used a flat shape
(- name: ..., git_remote: ..., org_path: ...) that only
install-components.sh (our CI script) understood. The actual
nf-core subworkflows install tool expects dict entries nested under
the component name instead (components_utils.py:
get_components_to_install), and crashes with
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get' on the old
shape - verified by running nf-core subworkflows install
hlahd_from_bam against this branch in a scratch pipeline.

hlahd_from_bam was the first subworkflow in this repo to declare an
external (nf-core) component dependency, so this had never been
exercised against the real nf-core CLI before.

Switch meta.yml to the nested shape nf-core expects, and update
install-components.sh to parse it the same way (kept org_path as an
MSK-only optional key nf-core silently ignores). Re-verified
install-components.sh still fetches all 4 dependencies correctly
against the new schema.

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Looks solid, passes all tests.

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