Fix breaking changes introduced in the NCBI API

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,11 +3,24 @@
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [Unpublished Version / DEV]
+## [[1.7](https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/releases/tag/1.7)] - 2022-07-01
+
+### :warning: Major enhancements
+
+Support for GEO ids has been dropped in this release due to breaking changes introduced in the NCBI API. For more detailed information please see [this PR](https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/pull/102).
+
+As a workaround, if you have a GEO accession you can directly download a text file containing the appropriate SRA ids to pass to the pipeline:
+
+- Search for your GEO accession on [GEO](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo)
+- Click `SRA Run Selector` at the bottom of the GEO accession page
+- Select the desired samples in the `SRA Run Selector` and then download the `Accession List`
+
+This downloads a text file called `SRR_Acc_List.txt` that can be directly provided to the pipeline e.g. `--input SRR_Acc_List.txt`.
 
 ### Enhancements & fixes
 
 - [#97](https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/pull/97) - Add support for generating nf-core/taxprofiler compatible samplesheets.
+- [#99](https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/issues/99) - SRA_IDS_TO_RUNINFO fails due to bad request
 - Add `enum` field for `--nf_core_pipeline` to parameter schema so only accept supported pipelines are accepted
 
 ## [[1.6](https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/releases/tag/1.6)] - 2022-05-17

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 ## Introduction
 
-**nf-core/fetchngs** is a bioinformatics pipeline to fetch metadata and raw FastQ files from both public and private databases. At present, the pipeline supports SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO / Synapse ids (see [usage docs](https://nf-co.re/fetchngs/usage#introduction)).
+**nf-core/fetchngs** is a bioinformatics pipeline to fetch metadata and raw FastQ files from both public and private databases. At present, the pipeline supports SRA / ENA / DDBJ / Synapse ids (see [usage docs](https://nf-co.re/fetchngs/usage#introduction)).
 
 The pipeline is built using [Nextflow](https://www.nextflow.io), a workflow tool to run tasks across multiple compute infrastructures in a very portable manner. It uses Docker/Singularity containers making installation trivial and results highly reproducible. The [Nextflow DSL2](https://www.nextflow.io/docs/latest/dsl2.html) implementation of this pipeline uses one container per process which makes it much easier to maintain and update software dependencies.
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ On release, automated continuous integration tests run the pipeline on a full-si
 
 Via a single file of ids, provided one-per-line (see [example input file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nf-core/test-datasets/fetchngs/sra_ids_test.txt)) the pipeline performs the following steps:
 
-### SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO ids
+### SRA / ENA / DDBJ ids
 
 1. Resolve database ids back to appropriate experiment-level ids and to be compatible with the [ENA API](https://ena-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/retrieval/programmatic-access.html)
 2. Fetch extensive id metadata via ENA API
@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ Via a single file of ids, provided one-per-line (see [example input file](https:
    - Otherwise use [`sra-tools`](https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools) to download `.sra` files and convert them to FastQ
 4. Collate id metadata and paths to FastQ files in a single samplesheet
 
+### GEO ids
+
+Support for GEO ids was dropped in [[v1.7](https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/releases/tag/1.7)] due to breaking changes introduced in the NCBI API. For more detailed information please see [this PR](https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/pull/102).
+
+As a workaround, if you have a GEO accession you can directly download a text file containing the appropriate SRA ids to pass to the pipeline instead:
+
+- Search for your GEO accession on [GEO](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo)
+- Click `SRA Run Selector` at the bottom of the GEO accession page
+- Select the desired samples in the `SRA Run Selector` and then download the `Accession List`
+
+This downloads a text file called `SRR_Acc_List.txt` that can be directly provided to the pipeline e.g. `--input SRR_Acc_List.txt`.
+
 ### Synapse ids
 
 1. Resolve Synapse directory ids to their corresponding FastQ files ids via the `synapse list` command.

assets/schema_input.json

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
             "type": "string",
-            "pattern": "^(((SR|ER|DR)[APRSX])|(SAM(N|EA|D))|(PRJ(NA|EB|DB))|(GS[EM])|(syn))(\\d+)$",
-            "errorMessage": "Please provide a valid SRA, ENA, DDBJ or GEO identifier"
+            "pattern": "^(((SR|ER|DR)[APRSX])|(SAM(N|EA|D))|(PRJ(NA|EB|DB))|(syn))(\\d+)$",
+            "errorMessage": "Please provide a valid SRA, ENA, DDBJ identifier"
         }
     }
 }

bin/sra_ids_to_runinfo.py

@@ -193,9 +193,11 @@ def is_valid(cls, identifier):
 class DatabaseResolver:
     """Define a service class for resolving various identifiers to experiments."""
 
-    _GEO_PREFIXES = {"GSE"}
+    _GEO_PREFIXES = {
+        "GSE",
+        "GSM"
+    }
     _SRA_PREFIXES = {
-        "GSM",
         "PRJNA",
         "SAMN",
         "SRR",
@@ -207,7 +209,9 @@ class DatabaseResolver:
         "PRJDB",
         "SAMD",
     }
-    _ENA_PREFIXES = {"ERR"}
+    _ENA_PREFIXES = {
+        "ERR"
+    }
 
     @classmethod
     def expand_identifier(cls, identifier):
@@ -246,13 +250,13 @@ def _content_check(cls, response, identifier):
     def _id_to_srx(cls, identifier):
         """Resolve the identifier to SRA experiments."""
         params = {
-            "save": "efetch",
+            "id": identifier,
             "db": "sra",
             "rettype": "runinfo",
-            "term": identifier,
+            "retmode": "text"
         }
         response = fetch_url(
-            f"https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?{urlencode(params)}"
+            f"https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?{urlencode(params)}"
         )
         cls._content_check(response, identifier)
         return [row["Experiment"] for row in open_table(response, delimiter=",")]
@@ -261,9 +265,14 @@ def _id_to_srx(cls, identifier):
     def _gse_to_srx(cls, identifier):
         """Resolve the identifier to SRA experiments."""
         ids = []
-        params = {"acc": identifier, "targ": "gsm", "view": "data", "form": "text"}
+        params = {
+            "id": identifier,
+            "db": "gds",
+            "rettype": "runinfo",
+            "retmode": "text"
+        }
         response = fetch_url(
-            f"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?{urlencode(params)}"
+            f"https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?{urlencode(params)}"
         )
         cls._content_check(response, identifier)
         gsm_ids = [

docs/output.md

@@ -9,19 +9,19 @@ This document describes the output produced by the pipeline. The directories lis
 The pipeline is built using [Nextflow](https://www.nextflow.io/) and processes data depending on the type of ids provided:
 
 - Download FastQ files and create samplesheet from:
-  1. [SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO ids](#sra--ena--ddbj--geo-ids)
+  1. [SRA / ENA / DDBJ ids](#sra--ena--ddbj-ids)
   2. [Synapse ids](#synapse-ids)
 - [Pipeline information](#pipeline-information) - Report metrics generated during the workflow execution
 
 Please see the [usage documentation](https://nf-co.re/fetchngs/usage#introduction) for a list of supported public repository identifiers and how to provide them to the pipeline.
 
-### SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO ids
+### SRA / ENA / DDBJ ids
 
 <details markdown="1">
 <summary>Output files</summary>
 
 - `fastq/`
-  - `*.fastq.gz`: Paired-end/single-end reads downloaded from the SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO.
+  - `*.fastq.gz`: Paired-end/single-end reads downloaded from the SRA / ENA / DDBJ.
 - `fastq/md5/`
   - `*.md5`: Files containing `md5` sum for FastQ files downloaded from the ENA.
 - `samplesheet/`

docs/usage.md

@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@
 
 The pipeline has been set-up to automatically download and process the raw FastQ files from both public and private repositories. Identifiers can be provided in a file, one-per-line via the `--input` parameter. Currently, the following types of example identifiers are supported:
 
-| `SRA`        | `ENA`        | `DDBJ`       | `GEO`      | `Synapse`   |
-| ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ---------- | ----------- |
-| SRR11605097  | ERR4007730   | DRR171822    | GSM4432381 | syn26240435 |
-| SRX8171613   | ERX4009132   | DRX162434    | GSE147507  |             |
-| SRS6531847   | ERS4399630   | DRS090921    |            |             |
-| SAMN14689442 | SAMEA6638373 | SAMD00114846 |            |             |
-| SRP256957    | ERP120836    | DRP004793    |            |             |
-| SRA1068758   | ERA2420837   | DRA008156    |            |             |
-| PRJNA625551  | PRJEB37513   | PRJDB4176    |            |             |
+| `SRA`        | `ENA`        | `DDBJ`       | `Synapse`   |
+| ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ----------- |
+| SRR11605097  | ERR4007730   | DRR171822    | syn26240435 |
+| SRX8171613   | ERX4009132   | DRX162434    |             |
+| SRS6531847   | ERS4399630   | DRS090921    |             |
+| SAMN14689442 | SAMEA6638373 | SAMD00114846 |             |
+| SRP256957    | ERP120836    | DRP004793    |             |
+| SRA1068758   | ERA2420837   | DRA008156    |             |
+| PRJNA625551  | PRJEB37513   | PRJDB4176    |             |
 
 ### SRR / ERR / DRR ids
 

lib/WorkflowMain.groovy

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class WorkflowMain {
             if (num_match == total_ids) {
                 is_sra = true
             } else {
-                log.error "Mixture of ids provided via --input: ${no_match_ids.join(', ')}\nPlease provide either SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO or Synapse ids!"
+                log.error "Mixture of ids provided via --input: ${no_match_ids.join(', ')}\nPlease provide either SRA / ENA / DDBJ or Synapse ids!"
                 System.exit(1)
             }
         }
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class WorkflowMain {
             if (num_match == total_ids) {
                 is_synapse = true
             } else {
-                log.error "Mixture of ids provided via --input: ${no_match_ids.join(', ')}\nPlease provide either SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO or Synapse ids!"
+                log.error "Mixture of ids provided via --input: ${no_match_ids.join(', ')}\nPlease provide either SRA / ENA / DDBJ or Synapse ids!"
                 System.exit(1)
             }
         }

lib/WorkflowSra.groovy

@@ -29,4 +29,21 @@ class WorkflowSra {
             "  running nf-core/other pipelines.\n" +
             "==================================================================================="
     }
+
+    // Fail pipeline if input ids are from the GEO
+    public static void isGeoFail(ids, log) {
+        def pattern = /^(GS[EM])(\d+)$/
+        for (id in ids) {
+            if (id =~ pattern) {
+                log.error "===================================================================================\n" +
+                    "  GEO id detected: ${id}\n" +
+                    "  Support for GEO ids was dropped in v1.7 due to breaking changes in the NCBI API.\n" +
+                    "  Please remove any GEO ids from the input samplesheet.\n\n" +
+                    "  Please see:\n" +
+                    "  https://github.com/nf-core/fetchngs/pull/102\n" +
+                    "==================================================================================="
+                System.exit(1)
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }

main.nf

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ if (WorkflowMain.isSraId(ch_input, log)) {
 } else if (WorkflowMain.isSynapseId(ch_input, log)) {
     input_type = 'synapse'
 } else {
-    exit 1, 'Ids provided via --input not recognised please make sure they are either SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO or Synapse ids!'
+    exit 1, 'Ids provided via --input not recognised please make sure they are either SRA / ENA / DDBJ or Synapse ids!'
 }
 
 if (params.input_type == input_type) {
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ if (params.input_type == input_type) {
 workflow NFCORE_FETCHNGS {
 
     //
-    // WORKFLOW: Download FastQ files for SRA / ENA / DDBJ / GEO ids
+    // WORKFLOW: Download FastQ files for SRA / ENA / DDBJ ids
     //
     if (params.input_type == 'sra') {
         SRA ( ch_ids )

nextflow.config

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ manifest {
     description     = 'Pipeline to fetch metadata and raw FastQ files from public databases'
     mainScript      = 'main.nf'
     nextflowVersion = '!>=21.10.3'
-    version         = '1.7dev'
+    version         = '1.7'
 }
 
 // Load modules.config for DSL2 module specific options

nextflow_schema.json

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
                     "pattern": "^\\S+\\.txt$",
                     "schema": "assets/schema_input.json",
                     "fa_icon": "fas fa-file-excel",
-                    "description": "File containing SRA/ENA/DDBJ/GEO identifiers one per line to download their associated metadata and FastQ files."
+                    "description": "File containing SRA/ENA/DDBJ identifiers one per line to download their associated metadata and FastQ files."
                 },
                 "input_type": {
                     "type": "string",

workflows/sra.nf

@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ workflow SRA {
     main:
     ch_versions = Channel.empty()
 
+    //
+    // Fail the pipeline if GEO ids detected
+    //
+    ids
+        .collect()
+        .map { WorkflowSra.isGeoFail(it, log) }
+
     //
     // MODULE: Get SRA run information for public database ids
     //