breakpointRanges: Extracting the structural variants as a GRanges.

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Methods (by class) Examples

Description

Extracting the structural variants as a GRanges.

.breakpointRanges() is an internal function for extracting structural variants as GRanges.

Usage

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breakpointRanges(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'VCF'
breakpointRanges(x, ...)

.breakpointRanges(
  vcf,
  nominalPosition = FALSE,
  placeholderName = "svrecord",
  suffix = "_bp",
  info_columns = NULL,
  unpartneredBreakends = FALSE,
  inferMissingBreakends = FALSE
)

Arguments

x

A VCF object

...

Parameters of .breakpointRanges(). See below.

vcf

A VCF object.

nominalPosition

Determines whether to call the variant at the nominal VCF position, or to call the confidence interval (incorporating any homology present). Default value is set to FALSE, where the interval is called based on the CIPOS tag. When set to TRUE, the ranges field contains the nomimal variant position only.

placeholderName

Variant name prefix to assign to unnamed variants.

suffix

The suffix to append to varaint names.

info_columns

VCF INFO columns to include in the GRanges object.

unpartneredBreakends

Determining whether to report unpartnered breakends. Default is set to FALSE.

inferMissingBreakends

Infer missing breakend records from ALT field of records without matching partners

Details

Structural variants are converted to breakend notation. Due to ambiguities in the VCF specifications, structural variants with multiple alt alleles are not supported. The CIPOS tag describes the uncertainty interval of the around the postition of the breakend. See Section 5.4.8 of https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/VCFv4.3.pdf for details of CIPOS. If HOMLEN or HOMSEQ is defined without CIPOS, it is assumed that the variant position is left aligned. A breakend on the '+' strand indicates a break immediately after the given position, to the left of which is the DNA segment involved in the breakpoint. The '-' strand indicates a break immediately before the given position, rightwards of which is the DNA segment involved in the breakpoint. Unpaired variants are removed at this stage.

Value

A GRanges object of SVs.

Methods (by class)

Examples

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vcf.file <- system.file("extdata", "vcf4.2.example.sv.vcf",
                         package = "StructuralVariantAnnotation")
vcf <- VariantAnnotation::readVcf(vcf.file, "hg19")
breakpointRanges(vcf)
breakpointRanges(vcf, nominalPosition=TRUE)

StructuralVariantAnnotation documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:43 p.m.