Generating multiple species reference for CellRanger
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nathansuek ▴ 10

Hi! I have a 10X scRNAseq data set that contains pig and human cells. I am trying to generate a hybrid human/pig reference for CellRanger as described by Cheung et al Nature Comm 2024

My approach is to download the ENSEMBL pig and human FASTA/GTF files. In order to ensure fully unique gene names, I wanted to add a prefix 'HUMAN' and 'PIG' to each. However, I am not sure where to add the prefix in both files bc their nomenclature seems to be different. For example, below, I could make it "HUMAN_ENST00000390473.1" and "HUMAN_ENSG00000142611" but I'm not sure how CellRanger could map them together.

Any ideas? Please let me know if I am misunderstanding or approaching this wrong.

 #FASTA EXAMPLE:
ENST00000390473.1 cdna chromosome:GRCh38:14:22450089:22450139:1 gene:ENSG00000211825.1 gene_biotype:TR_J_gene transcript_biotype:TR_J_gene gene_symbol:TRDJ1 description:T cell receptor delta joining 1 [Source:HGNC Symbol;Acc:HGNC:12257]
ACACCGATAAACTCATCTTTGGAAAAGGAACCCGTGTGACTGTGGAACCAA

#GTF EXAMPLE:
1       ensembl_havana  gene    3069168 3438621 .       +       .       gene_id "ENSG00000142611"; gene_version "17"; gene_name "PRDM16"; gene_source "ensembl_havana"; gene_biotype "protein_coding";
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Looks like 10x has a recommendation to create a reference with multiple species: https://www.10xgenomics.com/support/software/cell-ranger/latest/analysis/inputs/cr-3p-references#multiple-species-4f40e4

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A prefix for ensembl genes is not necessary. ENSG is strictly human; other species have different prefixes (ENSSSCG for the pig reference).

You only need to:

(1) Concatenate the fasta files, adding a prefix or suffix to the contig names

(2) Concatenate the .gtf files, adding the same prefix or suffix to contig names

(3) Follow the CellRanger mkref workflow.

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