[Bioc-sig-seq] Fwd: seqselect using GRanges object on multiple chromosomes

Janet Young jayoung at fhcrc.org
Thu Jun 23 20:10:44 CEST 2011


thanks - much tidier than my way.

Janet


On Jun 23, 2011, at 2:08 AM, Martin Morgan wrote:

> On 06/22/2011 05:33 PM, Janet Young wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> Thanks, Michael - looking forward to seqselect on GRanges being implemented, if possible. Getting a little further through my old code, brings up another related request.
>> 
>> Here are some slightly different example ranges:
>> 	myGR<- GRanges(seqnames=c("chr1","chr2","chr2"),ranges=IRanges(start=c(25,40,60),end=c(35,45,65)) )
>> 	myRD<- RangedData(space=c("chr1","chr2","chr2"),IRanges(start=c(25,40,60),end=c(35,45,65)) )
>> 
>> And I had previously been using this command:
>> 	restrict(ranges(myRD), 30,50)
>> I'm doing that because I'm interested in ranges within the same region on every single "chromosome". With my real data, they spaces/seqnames are not chromosomes, they're promoter regions centered around the transcription start site, and I want to take various equivalent sub-portions of the whole set of promoters)
>> 
>> I can't get "restrict" to work on the GRanges object at the moment (even if I try that same coercion first):
>> 	restrict( myGR , 30,50)
>> 	 Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable)  :
>> 	   unable to find an inherited method for function "restrict", for signature "GRanges"
>> 
>> 	restrict( as(myGR,"RangesList") , 30,50)
>> 	 Error in sapply(listData, function(Xi) extends(class(Xi), elementTypeX)) :
>> 	  error in evaluating the argument 'X' in selecting a method for function 'sapply': Error in .CompressedList.list.subscript(X = X,   INDEX = seq_len(length(X)),  :
>> 	  invalid output element of class "IRanges"
>> 
>> It would be great if restrict could work directly in the same way as it did for RangedData.  In the meantime I can probably figure out a way to do it with lapply.
> 
> 
> or
> 
>  rng <- restrict(ranges(gr), 30, 50, keep.all.ranges=TRUE)
>  ranges(gr) <- rng
>  gr[width(gr) != 0]
> 
> (and similarly for GRangesList).
> 
> Martin
> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> Janet
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> There is already a coercion from GRanges to RangesList, i.e., as(gr, "RangesList"). That said, seqselect() should have a method for GRanges, if possible.
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Janet Young<jayoung at fhcrc.org>  wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>> 
>>> A further note - the workaround I first emailed only works when there's one range per chromosome.   I have a better workaround now - the coercion looks like this instead:
>>> 
>>> convertGRangesToCompressedIRangesList<- function (myGRobject) {
>>>    myGR_convert<- split(myGRobject, seqnames(myGRobject) )
>>>    names(myGR_convert)<- unlist(lapply(myGR_convert, function(x) { as.character(seqnames(x))[1] }))
>>> 
>>>    myGR_convert<- lapply(myGR_convert, ranges )
>>>    class(myGR_convert)<- "CompressedIRangesList"
>>>    myGR_convert
>>> }
>>> 
>>> Janet
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>>> From: Janet Young<jayoung at fhcrc.org>
>>>> Date: June 22, 2011 4:01:03 PM PDT
>>>> To: Bioc-sig-sequencing at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: seqselect using GRanges object on multiple chromosomes
>>>> 
>>>> Hi there,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm updating some of my older code - I was previously storing regions of interest as RangedData but now I'm switching to GRanges.  I'm running into a little trouble with seqselect - I've found a workaround but wanted to suggest extending seqselect so it can work with GRanges objects directly.
>>>> 
>>>> I have some scores for each base-pair I've stored as a SimpleRleList object.  I want to use GRanges object with seqselect to pull out scores from my regions of interest, but to make that work I first have to do an odd (and slightly wrong-looking, to me) coercion of my GRanges object to a CompressedIRangesList.
>>>> 
>>>> I think the code below explains all (?).
>>>> 
>>>> thanks very much,
>>>> 
>>>> Janet
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> library(GenomicRanges)
>>>> Loading required package: IRanges
>>>> 
>>>> Attaching package: 'IRanges'
>>>> 
>>>> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':
>>>> 
>>>>    cbind, eval, intersect, Map, mapply, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin,
>>>>    pmin.int, rbind, rep.int, setdiff, table, union
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ### make some scores objects, for single chromosomes, or across several chrs
>>>>> tempscores<- Rle(1:20)
>>>>> tempscores2<- Rle(101:120)
>>>>> allscores<- RleList(chr1=tempscores,chr2=tempscores2) # yields a SimpleRleList
>>>>> 
>>>>> ## make some ranges objects
>>>>> myIR<- IRanges(start=3,end=5)
>>>>> myGR<- GRanges(seqnames=c("chr1","chr2"),ranges=IRanges(start=3,end=5))
>>>>> myRD<- RangedData(space=c("chr1","chr2"),IRanges(start=c(3,3),end=c(5,5)) )
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ### test seqselect:
>>>>> seqselect(tempscores,myIR) #works
>>>> 'integer' Rle of length 3 with 3 runs
>>>>  Lengths: 1 1 1
>>>>  Values : 3 4 5
>>>>> seqselect(allscores,myGR) # doesn't work
>>>> Error in seqselect(allscores, myGR) : unrecognized 'start' type
>>>>> seqselect(allscores,myRD) # doesn't work
>>>> Error in seqselect(allscores, myRD) : unrecognized 'start' type
>>>>> 
>>>>> seqselect(allscores,ranges(myRD)) # works. ranges(myRD) is a CompressedIRangesList
>>>> SimpleRleList of length 2
>>>> $chr1
>>>> 'integer' Rle of length 3 with 3 runs
>>>>  Lengths: 1 1 1
>>>>  Values : 3 4 5
>>>> 
>>>> $chr2
>>>> 'integer' Rle of length 3 with 3 runs
>>>>  Lengths:   1   1   1
>>>>  Values : 103 104 105
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> seqselect(allscores,ranges(myGR)) # doesn't work
>>>> Error in .bracket.Index(start, length(x), names(x), asRanges = TRUE) :
>>>>  range index out of bounds
>>>>> seqselect(allscores,split(myGR)) # doesn't work
>>>> Error in seqselect(allscores, split(myGR)) : unrecognized 'start' type
>>>>> 
>>>>> #### coerce myGR to something that looks a bit like a CompressedIRangesList
>>>>> myGR_convert<- split(myGR)
>>>>> names(myGR_convert)<- names(seqlengths(myGR_convert))
>>>>> myGR_convert<- lapply(myGR_convert, ranges )
>>>>> class(myGR_convert)<- "CompressedIRangesList"
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> seqselect(allscores,myGR_convert) # works
>>>> SimpleRleList of length 2
>>>> $chr1
>>>> 'integer' Rle of length 3 with 3 runs
>>>>  Lengths: 1 1 1
>>>>  Values : 3 4 5
>>>> 
>>>> $chr2
>>>> 'integer' Rle of length 3 with 3 runs
>>>>  Lengths:   1   1   1
>>>>  Values : 103 104 105
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>>>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>>>> 
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>> 
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>> 
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] GenomicRanges_1.4.6 IRanges_1.10.4
>>>> 
>>>> 
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