scanBam: Import, count, index, filter, sort, and merge 'BAM' (binary...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Description

Import binary ‘BAM’ files into a list structure, with facilities for selecting what fields and which records are imported, and other operations to manipulate BAM files.

Usage

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scanBam(file, index=file, ..., param=ScanBamParam(what=scanBamWhat()))

countBam(file, index=file, ..., param=ScanBamParam())

idxstatsBam(file, index=file, ...)

scanBamHeader(files, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
scanBamHeader(files, ...)

asBam(file, destination=sub("\\.sam(\\.gz)?", "", file), ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
asBam(file, destination=sub("\\.sam(\\.gz)?", "", file),
    ..., overwrite=FALSE, indexDestination=TRUE)

asSam(file, destination=sub("\\.bam", "", file), ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
asSam(file, destination=sub("\\.bam", "", file),
    ..., overwrite=FALSE)

filterBam(file, destination, index=file, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
filterBam(file, destination, index=file, ...,
    filter=FilterRules(), indexDestination=TRUE,
    param=ScanBamParam(what=scanBamWhat()))
    
sortBam(file, destination, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
sortBam(file, destination, ..., byQname=FALSE, maxMemory=512)

indexBam(files, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
indexBam(files, ...)

mergeBam(files, destination, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
mergeBam(files, destination, ..., region = GRanges(),
    overwrite = FALSE, header = character(), byQname = FALSE,
    addRG = FALSE, compressLevel1 = FALSE, indexDestination = FALSE)

Arguments

file

The character(1) file name of the ‘BAM’ ('SAM' for asBam) file to be processed.

files

The character() file names of the ‘BAM’ file to be processed. For mergeBam, must satisfy length(files) >= 2.

index

The character(1) name of the index file of the 'BAM' file being processed; this is given without the '.bai' extension.

destination

The character(1) file name of the location where the sorted, filtered, or merged output file will be created. For asBam asSam, and sortBam this is without the “.bam” file suffix.

region

A GRanges() instance with <= 1 elements, specifying the region of the BAM files to merged.

...

Additional arguments, passed to methods.

overwrite

A logical(1) indicating whether the destination can be over-written if it already exists.

filter

A FilterRules instance allowing users to filter BAM files based on arbitrary criteria, as described below.

indexDestination

A logical(1) indicating whether the created destination file should also be indexed.

byQname

A logical(1) indicating whether the sorted destination file should be sorted by Query-name (TRUE) or by mapping position (FALSE).

header

A character(1) file path for the header information to be used in the merged BAM file.

addRG

A logical(1) indicating whether the file name should be used as RG (read group) tag in the merged BAM file.

compressLevel1

A logical(1) indicating whether the merged BAM file should be compressed to zip level 1.

maxMemory

A numerical(1) indicating the maximal amount of memory (in MB) that the function is allowed to use.

param

An instance of ScanBamParam. This influences what fields and which records are imported.

Details

The scanBam function parses binary BAM files; text SAM files can be parsed using R's scan function, especially with arguments what to control the fields that are parsed.

countBam returns a count of records consistent with param.

idxstatsBam visit the index in index(file), and quickly returns the number of mapped and unmapped reads on each seqname.

scanBamHeader visits the header information in a BAM file, returning for each file a list containing elements targets and text, as described below. The SAM / BAM specification does not require that the content of the header be consistent with the content of the file, e.g., more targets may be present that are represented by reads in the file. An optional character vector argument containing one or two elements of what=c("targets", "text") can be used to specify which elements of the header are returned.

asBam converts 'SAM' files to 'BAM' files, equivalent to samtools view -Sb file > destination. The 'BAM' file is sorted and an index created on the destination (with extension '.bai') when indexDestination=TRUE.

asSam converts 'BAM' files to 'SAM' files, equivalent to samtools view file > destination.

filterBam parses records in file. Records satisfying the bamWhich bamFlag and bamSimpleCigar criteria of param are accumulated to a default of yieldSize = 1000000 records (change this by specifying yieldSize when creating a BamFile instance; see BamFile-class). These records are then parsed to a DataFrame and made available for further filtering by user-supplied FilterRules. Functions in the FilterRules instance should expect a single DataFrame argument representing all information specified by param. Each function must return a logical vector equal to the number of rows of the DataFrame. Return values are used to include (when TRUE) corresponding records in the filtered BAM file. The BAM file is created at destination. An index file is created on the destination when indexDestination=TRUE. It is more space- and time-efficient to filter using bamWhich, bamFlag, and bamSimpleCigar, if appropriate, than to supply FilterRules. filter may be a list of FilterRules instances, in which case destination must be a character vector of equal length. The original file is then separately filtered into destination[[i]], using filter[[i]] as the filter criterion.

sortBam sorts the BAM file given as its first argument, analogous to the “samtools sort” function.

indexBam creates an index for each BAM file specified, analogous to the ‘samtools index’ function.

mergeBam merges 2 or more sorted BAM files. As with samtools, the RG (read group) dictionary in the header of the BAM files is not reconstructed.

Details of the ScanBamParam class are provide on its help page; several salient points are reiterated here. ScanBamParam can contain a field what, specifying the components of the BAM records to be returned. Valid values of what are available with scanBamWhat. ScanBamParam can contain an argument which that specifies a subset of reads to return. This requires that the BAM file be indexed, and that the file be named following samtools convention as <bam_filename>.bai. ScanBamParam can contain an argument tag to specify which tags will be extracted.

Value

The scanBam,character-method returns a list of lists. The outer list groups results from each IntegerRanges list of bamWhich(param); the outer list is of length one when bamWhich(param) has length 0. Each inner list contains elements named after scanBamWhat(); elements omitted from bamWhat(param) are removed. The content of non-null elements are as follows, taken from the description in the samtools API documentation:

idxstatsBam returns a data.frame with columns seqnames, seqlength, mapped (number of mapped reads on seqnames) and unmapped (number of unmapped reads).

scanBamHeader returns a list, with one element for each file named in files. The list contains two element. The targets element contains target (reference) sequence lengths. The text element is itself a list with each element a list corresponding to tags (e.g., ‘@SQ’) found in the header, and the associated tag values.

asBam, asSam return the file name of the destination file.

sortBam returns the file name of the sorted file.

indexBam returns the file name of the index file created.

filterBam returns the file name of the destination file created.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>. Thomas Unterhiner <thomas.unterthiner@students.jku.at> (sortBam).

References

http://samtools.sourceforge.net/

See Also

ScanBamParam, scanBamWhat, scanBamFlag

Examples

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fl <- system.file("extdata", "ex1.bam", package="Rsamtools",
                  mustWork=TRUE)

##
## scanBam
##

res0 <- scanBam(fl)[[1]] # always list-of-lists
names(res0)
length(res0[["qname"]])
lapply(res0, head, 3)
table(width(res0[["seq"]])) # query widths
table(res0[["qwidth"]], useNA="always") # query widths derived from cigar
table(res0[["cigar"]], useNA="always")
table(res0[["strand"]], useNA="always")
table(res0[["flag"]], useNA="always")

which <- IRangesList(seq1=IRanges(1000, 2000),
                     seq2=IRanges(c(100, 1000), c(1000, 2000)))
p1 <- ScanBamParam(which=which, what=scanBamWhat())
res1 <- scanBam(fl, param=p1)
names(res1)
names(res1[[2]])

p2 <- ScanBamParam(what=c("rname", "strand", "pos", "qwidth"))
res2 <- scanBam(fl, param=p2)
                
p3 <- ScanBamParam(
    what="flag",           # information to query from BAM file 
    flag=scanBamFlag(isMinusStrand=FALSE))
length(scanBam(fl, param=p3)[[1]]$flag)

##
## idxstatsBam
##

idxstatsBam(fl)

##
## filterBam
##

param <- ScanBamParam(
   flag=scanBamFlag(isUnmappedQuery=FALSE),
   what="seq")
dest <- filterBam(fl, tempfile(), param=param)
countBam(dest)  ## 3271 records

## filter to a single file
filter <- FilterRules(list(MinWidth = function(x) width(x$seq) > 35))
dest <- filterBam(fl, tempfile(), param=param, filter=filter)
countBam(dest)  ## 398 records
res3 <- scanBam(dest, param=ScanBamParam(what="seq"))[[1]]
table(width(res3$seq))

## filter 1 file to 2 destinations
filters <- list(
    FilterRules(list(long=function(x) width(x$seq) > 35)),
    FilterRules(list(short=function(x) width(x$seq) <= 35))
)
destinations <- replicate(2, tempfile())
dest <- filterBam(fl, destinations, param=param, filter=filters)
lapply(dest, countBam)

##
## sortBam
##

sorted <- sortBam(fl, tempfile())

##
## scanBamParam re-orders 'which'; recover original order
##

gwhich <- as(which, "GRanges")[c(2, 1, 3)]    # example data
cnt <- countBam(fl, param=ScanBamParam(which=gwhich))
reorderIdx <- unlist(split(seq_along(gwhich), seqnames(gwhich)))
cnt
cnt[reorderIdx,]

Rsamtools documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 8:11 p.m.