[Bioc-devel] Modification of seqnames in GRanges

Cook, Malcolm MEC at stowers.org
Tue Nov 1 21:03:12 CET 2011


I would be very grateful to be able to update the seqlevels on TranscriptDb/BSgenome objects.


~Malcolm


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hervé Pagès [mailto:hpages at fhcrc.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 2:53 PM
> To: Cook, Malcolm
> Cc: 'Valerie Obenchain'; 'Liu,Bin'; 'bioc-devel at r-project.org'
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Modification of seqnames in GRanges
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You can also do:
> 
>    seqlevels(gr1) <- sub("chr", "", seqlevels(gr1))
> 
> This works on GRanges, GRangesList and GappedAlignments objects, but
> not on TranscriptDb or BSgenome objects where the seqlevels are
> immutable (that could be changed though, depends how much need there
> is for it).
> 
> Cheers,
> H.
> 
> 
> On 11-11-01 12:34 PM, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
> > Thanks for the pointer.
> >
> > I think those are only in 2.9.... to be released any day now....
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > ~Malcolm
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Valerie Obenchain [mailto:vobencha at fhcrc.org]
> >> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 6:13 PM
> >> To: Liu,Bin
> >> Cc: Cook, Malcolm; 'bioc-devel at r-project.org'
> >> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Modification of seqnames in GRanges
> >>
> >> Liu and Bin,
> >>
> >> For more general use you might be interested in.
> >>
> >> ?keepSeqlevels
> >> ?renameSeqlevels
> >>
> >> in the GenomicRanges package.
> >>
> >> Valerie
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/28/2011 02:26 PM, Liu,Bin wrote:
> >>> Thanks a lot! It works!
> >>>
> >>> Bin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Cook, Malcolm [mailto:MEC at stowers.org]
> >>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 1:57 PM
> >>> To: Liu,Bin; 'bioc-devel at r-project.org'
> >>> Subject: RE: Modification of seqnames in GRanges
> >>>
> >>> Hi Bin,
> >>>
> >>> I think I have you covered....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> UCSC2FlybaseGRanges<- function (GRanges) {
> >>> ### Rename the chromosomes in<GRanges>   from UCSC conventions
> >> ('chr1',
> >>> ### etc) to comport with Flybase conventions ('1', etc) by stripping
> >>> ### leading 'chr' and translating 'M' as 'dmel_mitochondrion_genome'.
> >>>     ## old way:?
> >>>     ## levels(seqnames(BSgenome))<-
> >> factor(Rle(sub('chr','',levels(seqnames(BSgenome)))))
> >>>     ##
> >> levels(seqnames(BSgenome))[levels(seqnames(BSgenome))=="M"]<-
> >> "dmel_mitochondrion_genome"
> >>>     seqlevels(GRanges)<- sub('chr','',seqlevels(GRanges))
> >>>     seqlevels(GRanges)<-
> >> sub('M','dmel_mitochondrion_genome',seqlevels(GRanges))
> >>>     GRanges
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Flybase2UCSC_ID<-function(ID)
> >> gsub('^(.*)$','chr\\1',sub('dmel_mitochondrion_genome','M',ID))
> >>>
> >>> Flybase2UCSCGRanges<- function (GRanges) {
> >>> ### converse of UCSC2FlybaseGRanges()
> >>>     seqlevels(GRanges)<-
> >> sub('dmel_mitochondrion_genome','M',seqlevels(GRanges))
> >>>     seqlevels(GRanges)<- gsub('^(.*)$','chr\\1',seqlevels(GRanges))
> >>>     GRanges
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> ~Malcolm
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: bioc-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:bioc-devel-
> bounces at r-
> >>>> project.org] On Behalf Of Liu,Bin
> >>>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 11:56 AM
> >>>> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> >>>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Modification of seqnames in GRanges
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>       I have a question about how to modify the seqnames in below. I
> would
> >> like
> >>>> to remove chr in the seqnames.
> >>>> For example: "chr2L" ->   "2L". I tried the following code and got an
> error:
> >>>>
> >>>>> seqnames(gr1)<- sub("chr", "", seqnames(gr1))
> >>>> Error in `seqnames<-`(`*tmp*`, value =<S4 object of class "Rle">) :
> >>>>     levels of supplied 'seqnames' must be identical to 'seqlevels(x)'
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     With the following checking, it seems chrM is not in seqnames but is
> in
> >> the
> >>>> levels.
> >>>>> levels(seqnames(gr1))
> >>>>    [1] "chr2L"     "chr2LHet"  "chr2R"     "chr2RHet"  "chr3L"     "chr3LHet"
> >>>>    [7] "chr3R"     "chr3RHet"  "chr4"      "chrU"      "chrUextra" "chrX"
> >>>> [13] "chrXHet"   "chrYHet"   "chrM"
> >>>>
> >>>>> unique(seqnames(gr1))
> >>>>    [1] chr2L     chr2LHet  chr2R     chr2RHet  chr3L     chr3LHet  chr3R
> >>>>    [8] chr3RHet  chr4      chrU      chrUextra chrX      chrXHet   chrYHet
> >>>> 15 Levels: chr2L chr2LHet chr2R chr2RHet chr3L chr3LHet chr3R chr3RHet
> ...
> >>>> chrM
> >>>>
> >>>>      Any way to solve the problem?   Thanks for the help.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bin Liu
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> gr1
> >>>> GRanges with 48498 ranges and 0 elementMetadata values:
> >>>>             seqnames           ranges strand
> >>>>                <Rle>          <IRanges>    <Rle>
> >>>>         [1]    chr2L   [ 8117,  8192]      +
> >>>>         [2]    chr2L   [11345, 11409]      +
> >>>>         [3]    chr2L   [11519, 11778]      +
> >>>>         [4]    chr2L   [12222, 12285]      +
> >>>>         [5]    chr2L   [12929, 13519]      +
> >>>>         [6]    chr2L   [13626, 13682]      +
> >>>>         [7]    chr2L   [14875, 14932]      +
> >>>>         [8]    chr2L   [15712, 17052]      +
> >>>>         [9]    chr2L   [17213, 18025]      +
> >>>>         ...      ...              ...    ...
> >>>>     [48490]  chrYHet [191815, 191893]      +
> >>>>     [48491]  chrYHet [192066, 206119]      +
> >>>>     [48492]  chrYHet [229343, 232315]      +
> >>>>     [48493]  chrYHet [232496, 232758]      +
> >>>>     [48494]  chrYHet [233403, 233455]      +
> >>>>     [48495]  chrYHet [233595, 271120]      +
> >>>>     [48496]  chrYHet [280371, 291285]      +
> >>>>     [48497]  chrYHet [305380, 305531]      +
> >>>>     [48498]  chrYHet [306016, 306486]      +
> >>>>     ---
> >>>>     seqlengths:
> >>>>          chr2L  chr2LHet     chr2R  chr2RHet ...   chrXHet   chrYHet      chrM
> >>>>       23011544    368872  21146708   3288761 ...    204112    347038     19517
> >>>>
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