genomeToProtein: Map genomic coordinates to protein coordinates
In ensembldb: Utilities to create and use Ensembl-based annotation databases

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

Map positions along the genome to positions within the protein sequence if a protein is encoded at the location. The provided coordinates have to be completely within the genomic position of an exon of a protein coding transcript (see genomeToTranscript() for details). Also, the provided positions have to be within the genomic region encoding the CDS of a transcript (excluding its stop codon; soo transcriptToProtein() for details).

For genomic positions for which the mapping failed an IRanges with negative coordinates (i.e. a start position of -1) is returned.

1	genomeToProtein(x, db)

`x`	`GRanges` with the genomic coordinates that should be mapped to within-protein coordinates.
`db`	`EnsDb` object.

genomeToProtein combines calls to genomeToTranscript() and transcriptToProtein().

An IRangesList with each element representing the mapping of one of the GRanges in x (i.e. the length of the IRangesList is length(x)). Each element in IRanges provides the coordinates within the protein sequence, names being the (Ensembl) IDs of the protein. The ID of the transcript encoding the protein, the ID of the exon within which the genomic coordinates are located and its rank in the transcript are provided in metadata columns "tx_id", "exon_id" and "exon_rank". Metadata columns "cds_ok" indicates whether the length of the CDS matches the length of the encoded protein. Coordinates for which cds_ok = FALSE should be taken with caution, as they might not be correct. Metadata columns "seq_start", "seq_end", "seq_name" and "seq_strand" provide the provided genomic coordinates.

For genomic coordinates that can not be mapped to within-protein sequences an IRanges with a start coordinate of -1 is returned.

Johannes Rainer

Other coordinate mapping functions: cdsToTranscript(), genomeToTranscript(), proteinToGenome(), proteinToTranscript(), transcriptToCds(), transcriptToGenome(), transcriptToProtein()

library(EnsDb.Hsapiens.v86)
## Restrict all further queries to chromosome x to speed up the examples
edbx <- filter(EnsDb.Hsapiens.v86, filter = ~ seq_name == "X")

## In the example below we define 4 genomic regions:
## 630898: corresponds to the first nt of the CDS of ENST00000381578
## 644636: last nt of the CDS of ENST00000381578
## 644633: last nt before the stop codon in ENST00000381578
## 634829: position within an intron.
gnm <- GRanges("X", IRanges(start = c(630898, 644636, 644633, 634829),
    width = c(5, 1, 1, 3)))
res <- genomeToProtein(gnm, edbx)

## The result is an IRangesList with the same length as gnm
length(res)
length(gnm)

## The first element represents the mapping for the first GRanges:
## the coordinate is mapped to the first amino acid of the protein(s).
## The genomic coordinates can be mapped to several transcripts (and hence
## proteins).
res[[1]]

## The stop codon is not translated, thus the mapping for the second
## GRanges fails
res[[2]]

## The 3rd GRanges is mapped to the last amino acid.
res[[3]]

## Mapping of intronic positions fail
res[[4]]