R/callVariants.R

In lawremi/VariantTools: Tools for Exploratory Analysis of Variant Calls

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### Variant Calling
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setGeneric("callVariants", function(x, ...) standardGeneric("callVariants"))

## This method has explicit arguments for each stage in the
## pipeline. This is a concious choice to expose the algorithmic
## details (but not the implementation details).

setMethod("callVariants", "BamFile",
          function(x, tally.param,
                   calling.filters = VariantCallingFilters(...),
                   post.filters = FilterRules(),
                   ...)
          {
            if (!missing(calling.filters) && length(list(...)) > 0L) {
              warning("ignored arguments: ",
                      paste(names(list(...)), collapse=", "))
            }
            raw_variants <- tallyVariants(x, tally.param)
            callVariants(raw_variants, calling.filters, post.filters)
          })

setMethod("callVariants", "character", function(x, ...) {
  callVariants(BamFile(x), ...)
})

setMethod("callVariants", "GenomicRanges",
          function(x, calling.filters = VariantCallingFilters(...),
                   post.filters = FilterRules(), ...)
          {
            variantGRangesIsDeprecated("callVariants,GenomicRanges")
            callVariants(variantGRangesToVRanges(x),
                         calling.filters = calling.filters,
                         post.filters = post.filters, ...)
          })

setMethod("callVariants", "VRanges",
          function(x, calling.filters = VariantCallingFilters(...),
                   post.filters = FilterRules(), ...)
          {
            called_variants <- subsetByFilter(x, calling.filters)
            postFilterVariants(called_variants, post.filters)
          })

VariantCallingFilters <-
  function(read.count = 2L, p.lower = 0.2, p.error = 1/1000)
{
  c(VariantSanityFilters(),
    FilterRules(list(readCount = MinAltDepthFilter(read.count),
                     likelihoodRatio = BinomialLRFilter(p.lower, p.error))))
}

MinAltDepthFilter <- function(min.depth = 2L) {
  function(x) {
    altDepth(x) >= min.depth
  }
}

MinTotalDepthFilter <- function(min.depth = 10L) {
  function(x) {
    totalDepth(x) >= min.depth
  }
}

BinomialLRFilter <-
  function(p.lower = 0.2, p.error = 1/1000)
{
  function(x) {
    freq.cutoff <- lrtFreqCutoff(p.error, p.lower)
    sample.freq <- altFraction(x)
    passed <- sample.freq >= freq.cutoff
    passed[is.na(passed)] <- FALSE
    passed
  }
}

lrtFreqCutoff <- function(p0, p1, n = if (C == 1L) 1L else n, C = 1L) {
  num <- (1/n) * log(C) + log(1-p0) - log(1-p1)
  denom <- log(p1) - log(p0) + log(1-p0) - log(1-p1)
  num/denom
}

sanitizeVariants <- function(x, ...) {
  subsetByFilter(x, VariantSanityFilters(...))
}

VariantSanityFilters <- function() {
  FilterRules(list(nonRef = NonRefFilter(), nonNRef = NonNRefFilter()))
}