In LieberInstitute/GenomicState: Build and access GenomicState objects for use with derfinder tools from sources like Gencode

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
    collapse = TRUE,
    comment = "#>"
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## For links
library("BiocStyle")

## Track time spent on making the vignette
startTime <- Sys.time()

## Bib setup
library("RefManageR")

## Write bibliography information
bib <- c(
    R = citation(),
    BiocStyle = citation("BiocStyle"),
    GenomeInfoDb = RefManageR::BibEntry(
        bibtype = "manual",
        key = "GenomeInfoDb",
        author = "Sonali Arora and Martin Morgan and Marc Carlson and H. Pagès",
        title = "GenomeInfoDb: Utilities for manipulating chromosome and other 'seqname' identifiers",
        year = 2017, doi = "10.18129/B9.bioc.GenomeInfoDb"
    ),
    knitr = citation("knitr")[3],
    GenomicState = citation("GenomicState")[1],
    RefManageR = citation("RefManageR")[1],
    rmarkdown = citation("rmarkdown")[1],
    rtracklayer = citation("rtracklayer")[1],
    sessioninfo = citation("sessioninfo"),
    testthat = citation("testthat"),
    GenomicFeatures = citation("GenomicFeatures"),
    bumphunter = citation("bumphunter")[1],
    derfinder = citation("derfinder")[1],
    AnnotationDbi = citation("AnnotationDbi"),
    IRanges = citation("IRanges"),
    org.Hs.eg.db = citation("org.Hs.eg.db"),
    glue = citation("glue"),
    AnnotationHub = citation("AnnotationHub"),
    AnnotationHubData = citation("AnnotationHubData"),
    GenomicRanges = citation("GenomicRanges")
)

Basics

Install r Biocpkg('GenomicState')

R is an open-source statistical environment which can be easily modified to enhance its functionality via packages. r Biocpkg('GenomicState') is a R package available via Bioconductor. R can be installed on any operating system from CRAN after which you can install r Biocpkg('GenomicState') by using the following commands in your R session:

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE)) {
    install.packages("BiocManager")
}

BiocManager::install("GenomicState")

## Check that you have a valid Bioconductor installation
BiocManager::valid()

Required knowledge

r Biocpkg('GenomicState') is based on many other packages and in particular in those that have implemented the infrastructure needed for dealing with annotation data. That is, packages like r Biocpkg('rtracklayer') that allow you to import the data. A r Biocpkg('GenomicState') user is not expected to deal with those packages directly but will need to be familiar with r Biocpkg('derfinder') and r Biocpkg('derfinderPlot') to understand the results r Biocpkg('GenomicState') generates. Furthermore, it'll be useful for the user to know the syntax of r Biocpkg('AnnotationHub') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationHub']]) in order to query and load the data provided by this package.

If you are asking yourself the question "Where do I start using Bioconductor?" you might be interested in this blog post.

Asking for help

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Citing r Biocpkg('GenomicState')

We hope that r Biocpkg('GenomicState') will be useful for your research. Please use the following information to cite the package and the overall approach. Thank you!

## Citation info
citation("GenomicState")

Overview

The r Biocpkg('GenomicState') package was developed for speeding up analyses that require these objects and in particular those that rely on Gencode annotation data. The package r Biocpkg('GenomicState') provides functions for building GenomicState objects from diverse annotation sources such as Gencode. It also provides a way to load pre-computed GenomicState objects if you are working at JHPCE. These GenomicState objects are normally created using derfinder::makeGenomicState() and can be used for annotating regions with derfinder::annotateRegions() which are in turn used by derfinderPlot::plotRegionCoverage().

To get started, load the r Biocpkg('GenomicState') package.

library("GenomicState")

AnnotationHub

Using the GencodeStateHub() function you can query and download the data from r Biocpkg('GenomicState') using r Biocpkg('AnnotationHub') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationHub']]).

## Query AnnotationHub for the GenomicState object for Gencode v31 on
## hg19 coordinates
hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19 <- GenomicStateHub(
    version = "31",
    genome = "hg19",
    filetype = "GenomicState"
)
hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19


## Check the metadata
mcols(hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19)

## Access the file through AnnotationHub
if (length(hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19) == 1) {
    hub_gs_gencode_v31_hg19 <- hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19[[1]]

    hub_gs_gencode_v31_hg19
}

Using the objects

To show how we can use these objects, first we build those for Gencode version 31 on hg19 coordinates.

## Load the example TxDb object
## or start from scratch with:
## txdb_v31_hg19_chr21 <- gencode_txdb(version = '31', genome = 'hg19',
##     chrs = 'chr21')
txdb_v31_hg19_chr21 <- AnnotationDbi::loadDb(
    system.file("extdata", "txdb_v31_hg19_chr21.sqlite",
        package = "GenomicState"
    )
)

## Build the GenomicState and annotated genes
genes_v31_hg19_chr21 <- gencode_annotated_genes(txdb_v31_hg19_chr21)
gs_v31_hg19_chr21 <- gencode_genomic_state(txdb_v31_hg19_chr21)

You can alternatively use the files hosted in r Biocpkg('AnnotationHub') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationHub']]) which will be faster in general.

## Create the AnnotationHub object once and re-use it to speed up things
ah <- AnnotationHub::AnnotationHub()

## Find the TxDb object for hg19 Gencode version 31
hub_query_txdb_gencode_v31_hg19 <- GenomicStateHub(
    version = "31",
    genome = "hg19",
    filetype = "TxDb", ah = ah
)
hub_query_txdb_gencode_v31_hg19

## Now the Annotated Genes for hg19 Gencode v31
hub_query_genes_gencode_v31_hg19 <- GenomicStateHub(
    version = "31",
    genome = "hg19",
    filetype = "AnnotatedGenes", ah = ah
)
hub_query_genes_gencode_v31_hg19

## And finally the GenomicState for hg19 Gencode v31
hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19 <- GenomicStateHub(
    version = "31",
    genome = "hg19",
    filetype = "GenomicState", ah = ah
)
hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19

## If you want to access the files use the double bracket AnnotationHub syntax
## to retrieve the R objects from the web.
if (FALSE) {
    hub_txdb_gencode_v31_hg19 <- hub_query_txdb_gencode_v31_hg19[[1]]
    hub_genes_gencode_v31_hg19 <- hub_query_genes_gencode_v31_hg19[[1]]
    hub_gs_gencode_v31_hg19 <- hub_query_gs_gencode_v31_hg19[[1]]
}

Next we load a series of related packages that use the objects we created with r Biocpkg('GenomicState') or downloaded from r Biocpkg('AnnotationHub') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationHub']]).

## Load external packages
library("derfinder")
library("derfinderPlot")
library("bumphunter")
library("GenomicRanges")

Next we can prepare the needed for running derfinderPlot::plotRegionCoverage() where we use the TxDb object, the GenomicState and the annotated genes we prepared for Gencode v31 on hg19.

## Some example regions from derfinder (set the chromosome lengths)
regions <- genomeRegions$regions[1:2]
seqlengths(regions) <- seqlengths(txdb_v31_hg19_chr21)[
    names(seqlengths(regions))
]

## Annotate them
nearestAnnotation <- matchGenes(x = regions, subject = genes_v31_hg19_chr21)
annotatedRegions <- annotateRegions(
    regions = regions,
    genomicState = gs_v31_hg19_chr21$fullGenome, minoverlap = 1
)

## Obtain fullCov object
fullCov <- list("chr21" = genomeDataRaw$coverage)
regionCov <- getRegionCoverage(fullCov = fullCov, regions = regions)

And now we can make the example plot as shown below.

## now make the plot
plotRegionCoverage(
    regions = regions, regionCoverage = regionCov,
    groupInfo = genomeInfo$pop, nearestAnnotation = nearestAnnotation,
    annotatedRegions = annotatedRegions, whichRegions = 1:2,
    txdb = txdb_v31_hg19_chr21, verbose = FALSE
)

JHPCE

You can also access the data locally using the function local_metadata() which works at JHPCE or anywhere where you have re-created the files from this package. This returns a data.frame() which you can subset. It also inclused the R code for loading the data which you can do using eval(parse(text = local_metadata()$loadCode)) as shown below.

## Get the local metadata
meta <- local_metadata()

## Subset to the data of interest, lets say hg19 TxDb for v31
interest <- subset(meta, RDataClass == "TxDb" & Tags == "Gencode:v31:hg19")

## Next you can load the data
if (file.exists(interest$RDataPath)) {
    ## This only works at JHPCE
    eval(parse(text = interest$loadCode))

    ## Explore the loaded object (would be gencode_v31_hg19_txdb in this case)
    gencode_v31_hg19_txdb
}

Build objects

The objects provided by GenomicState through r Biocpkg('AnnotationHub') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationHub']]) were built using code like the one included below which is how the Gencode version 23 for hg19 files were built.

outdir <- "gencode"
dir.create(outdir, showWarnings = FALSE)

## Build and save the TxDb object
gencode_v23_hg19_txdb <- gencode_txdb("23", "hg19")
saveDb(gencode_v23_hg19_txdb,
    file = file.path(outdir, "gencode_v23_hg19_txdb.sqlite")
)

## Build and save the annotateTranscripts output
gencode_v23_hg19_annotated_genes <- gencode_annotated_genes(
    gencode_v23_hg19_txdb
)
save(gencode_v23_hg19_annotated_genes,
    file = file.path(outdir, "gencode_v23_hg19_annotated_genes.rda")
)

## Build and save the GenomicState
gencode_v23_hg19_GenomicState <- gencode_genomic_state(
    gencode_v23_hg19_txdb
)
save(gencode_v23_hg19_GenomicState,
    file = file.path(outdir, "gencode_v23_hg19_GenomicState.rda")
)

For more details check the source files:

## R commands for building the files:
system.file("scripts", "make-data_gencode_human.R",
    package = "GenomicState"
)
## The above file was created by this one:
system.file("scripts", "generate_make_data_gencode_human.R",
    package = "GenomicState"
)

Reproducibility

The r Biocpkg('GenomicState') package r Citep(bib[['GenomicState']]) was made possible thanks to:

• R r Citep(bib[['R']])
• r Biocpkg('BiocStyle') r Citep(bib[['BiocStyle']])
• r Biocpkg('GenomeInfoDb') r Citep(bib[['GenomeInfoDb']])
• r CRANpkg('knitr') r Citep(bib[['knitr']])
• r CRANpkg("RefManageR") r Citep(bib[["RefManageR"]])
• r CRANpkg('rmarkdown') r Citep(bib[['rmarkdown']])
• r Biocpkg('rtracklayer') r Citep(bib[['rtracklayer']])
• r CRANpkg('sessioninfo') r Citep(bib[['sessioninfo']])
• r CRANpkg('testthat') r Citep(bib[['testthat']])
• r Biocpkg('GenomicFeatures') r Citep(bib[['GenomicFeatures']])
• r Biocpkg('bumphunter') r Citep(bib[['bumphunter']])
• r Biocpkg('derfinder') r Citep(bib[['derfinder']])
• r Biocpkg('AnnotationDbi') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationDbi']])
• r Biocpkg('IRanges') r Citep(bib[['IRanges']])
• r Biocpkg('org.Hs.eg.db') r Citep(bib[['org.Hs.eg.db']])
• r CRANpkg('glue') r Citep(bib[['glue']])
• r Biocpkg('AnnotationHub') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationHub']])
• r Biocpkg('AnnotationHubData') r Citep(bib[['AnnotationHubData']])
• r Biocpkg('GenomicRanges') r Citep(bib[['GenomicRanges']])

Code for creating the vignette

## Create the vignette
library("rmarkdown")
system.time(render("GenomicState.Rmd"))

## Extract the R code
library("knitr")
knit("GenomicState.Rmd", tangle = TRUE)

Date the vignette was generated.

## Date the vignette was generated
Sys.time()

Wallclock time spent generating the vignette.

## Processing time in seconds
totalTime <- diff(c(startTime, Sys.time()))
round(totalTime, digits = 3)

R session information.

## Session info
library("sessioninfo")
options(width = 120)
session_info()

Bibliography

This vignette was generated using r Biocpkg('BiocStyle') r Citep(bib[['BiocStyle']]), r CRANpkg('knitr') r Citep(bib[['knitr']]) and r CRANpkg('rmarkdown') r Citep(bib[['rmarkdown']]) running behind the scenes.

Citations made with r CRANpkg('RefManageR') r Citep(bib[['RefManageR']]).

## Print bibliography
PrintBibliography(bib, .opts = list(hyperlink = "to.doc", style = "html"))

LieberInstitute/GenomicState documentation built on May 12, 2023, 5:15 p.m.